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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Essay on Probability', 'Letters to Pierre Bayle' and 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony
The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
If we know what is good or rational, our knowledge is extended, and our free will restricted [Leibniz]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]