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All the ideas for 'Ambitious, yet modest, Metaphysics', 'There is No A Priori (and reply)' and 'Physical Causation'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

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Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

16413

Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

16416

The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

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How could the mind have a link to the necessary character of reality? [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

19564

Some knowledge must be empirical; naturalism implies that all knowledge is like that [Devitt]

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

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Physical causation consists in transference of conserved quantities [Dowe, by Mumford/Anjum]

4787	Causation interaction is an exchange of conserved quantities, such as mass, energy or charge [Dowe, by Psillos]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims

4788	Dowe commends the Conserved Quantity theory as it avoids mention of counterfactuals [Dowe, by Psillos]