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All the ideas for 'Disquisitions', 'works' and 'The Sign of Four'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Modes of things exist in some way, without being full-blown substances [Gassendi]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

13074

Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction

22200

If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle]

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

7563	The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley]