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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'works' and 'Understanding'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

14296

Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19691

Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm]

19690

'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm]

19692

You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions' [Grimm]

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

4398	An event causes another just if the second event would not have happened without the first [Lewis, by Psillos]