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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'Causality and Explanation' and 'What is a Leading Principle?'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

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A 'belief' is a habit which determines how our imagination and actions proceed [Peirce]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Salmon's mechanisms are processes and interactions, involving marks, or conserved quantities [Salmon, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

5994	Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]