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All the ideas for 'Review of Parsons (1983)', 'Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature' and 'Ancient Thought in Modern Physics'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

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Mathematics is part of science; transfinite mathematics I take as mostly uninterpreted [Quine]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

6552	You can only explain the qualities of large objects using entities which lack those qualities [Heisenberg]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

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Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain [Vetter]