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All the ideas for 'Paradoxes: Form and Predication', 'Carving Content at the Joints' and 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World'

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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification

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Saying 'they can become a set' is a tautology, because reference to 'they' implies a collection [Cargile]

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]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

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A sentence should be recarved to reveal its content or implication relations [Yablo]