Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Herodotus, Willard Quine and Roderick Chisholm
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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The concept of physical necessity is basic to both causation, and to the concept of nature [Chisholm]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
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Quine probably regrets natural kinds now being treated as essences [Quine, by Dennett]
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If similarity has no degrees, kinds cannot be contained within one another [Quine]
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Comparative similarity allows the kind 'colored' to contain the kind 'red' [Quine]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 3. Knowing Kinds
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You can't base kinds just on resemblance, because chains of resemblance are a muddle [Quine]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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Some propose a distinct 'agent causation', as well as 'event causation' [Chisholm]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Causal relata are individuated by coarse spacetime regions [Quine, by Schaffer,J]
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Causation among objects relates either events or states [Chisholm]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
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It is hard to see how regularities could be explained [Quine]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws
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A 'law of nature' is just something which is physically necessary [Chisholm]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / e. Anti scientific essentialism
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Essence gives an illusion of understanding [Quine, by Almog]
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We can't say 'necessarily if x is in water then x dissolves' if we can't quantify modally [Quine]
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