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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'The General Theory of Employment' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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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]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism

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Laissez-faire individualism doesn't work, especially in troublesome times [Keynes]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]