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All the ideas for 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World', 'Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher' and 'Concerning the Trinity'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories

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There are two sorts of category - referring to things, and to circumstances of things [Boethius]

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

17093

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

17492

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

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime

1658	In early Greece the word for punishment was also the word for vengeance [Vlastos]