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Ideas for Anaxarchus, R.D. Ingthorsson and Gareth Evans

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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
22605 Humeans describe the surface of causation, while powers accounts aim at deeper explanations [Ingthorsson]
22607 Time and space are not causal, but they determine natural phenomena [Ingthorsson]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
22608 Casuation is the transmission of conserved quantities between causal processes [Ingthorsson]
22621 Causation as transfer only works for asymmetric interactions [Ingthorsson]
22614 Interventionist causal theory says it gets a reliable result whenever you manipulate it [Ingthorsson]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
22639 Causal events are always reciprocal, and there is no distinction of action and reaction [Ingthorsson]
22615 One effect cannot act on a second effect in causation, because the second doesn't yet exist [Ingthorsson]
22616 Empiricists preferred events to objects as the relata, because they have observable motions [Ingthorsson]
22617 Science now says all actions are reciprocal, not unidirectional [Ingthorsson]
22619 Causes are not agents; the whole interaction is the cause, and the changed compound is the effect [Ingthorsson]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
22635 People only accept the counterfactual when they know the underlying cause [Ingthorsson]
22634 Counterfactuals don't explain causation, but causation can explain counterfactuals [Ingthorsson]
22637 Counterfactual theories are false in possible worlds where causation is actual [Ingthorsson]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
22624 A cause can fail to produce its normal effect, by prevention, pre-emption, finks or antidotes [Ingthorsson]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
22622 Any process can go backwards or forwards in time without violating the basic laws of physics [Ingthorsson]