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All the ideas for 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World', 'On 'Physics'' and 'Demonstratives'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

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Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

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God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony]

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Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony]

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

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Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon]

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Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Kaplan, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

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'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Kaplan, by Schroeter]