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All the ideas for 'The Decline of the West', 'Causality: Reductionism versus Realism' and 'Journals'

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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

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Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles

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Cold and hot are the swiftness and slowness of corpuscular motion [Beeckman]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8416	Reductionists can't explain accidents, uninstantiated laws, probabilities, or the existence of any laws [Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation

8418	Quantum physics suggests that the basic laws of nature are probabilistic [Tooley]