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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Mechanism, purpose and explan. exclusion' and '72: Against Stoics on common Conceptions'

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

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

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / a. Explanation

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Explanatory exclusion: there cannot be two separate complete explanations of a single event [Kim]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

5974	People report seeing through rocks, or over the horizon, or impossibly small works [Plutarch]