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All the ideas for 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World', 'Examination of Sir Wm Hamilton's Philosophy' and 'Material Constitution'

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9 ideas

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object

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Constitution is identity (being in the same place), or it isn't (having different possibilities) [Wasserman]

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Constitution is not identity, because it is an asymmetric dependence relation [Wasserman]

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There are three main objections to seeing constitution as different from identity [Wasserman]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

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The weight of a wall is not the weight of its parts, since that would involve double-counting [Wasserman]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Relative identity may reject transitivity, but that suggests that it isn't about 'identity' [Wasserman]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

3583	External objects are permanent possibilities of sensation [Mill]

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]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy

3537	I judge others' feeling by analogy with my body and behaviour [Mill]