Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Lewis's Programme', 'fragments/reports' and 'Specimen inventorum'

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4 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals

8431	Problems with Goodman's view of counterfactuals led to a radical approach from Stalnaker and Lewis [Horwich]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence

12729

The cause of a change is not the real influence, but whatever gives a reason for the change [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

8432	Analyse counterfactuals using causation, not the other way around [Horwich]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1558	Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus]