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All the ideas for 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes', 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man' and 'Barcan Formulae'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

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Barcan:nothing comes into existence; Converse:nothing goes out; Both:domain is unchanging [Vervloesem]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

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Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]