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All the ideas for 'Sententia on 'De Caelo'', 'MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment' and 'Causality: Production and Propagation'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly
22101 Philosophy aims to know the truth about the way things are [Aquinas]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
1490 You would have to be very morally lazy to ignore criticisms of your own culture [Nagel]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
8412 A causal interaction is when two processes intersect, and correlated modifications persist afterwards [Salmon]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
8413 Cause must come first in propagations of causal interactions, but interactions are simultaneous [Salmon]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
8411 Instead of localised events, I take enduring and extended processes as basic to causation [Salmon]