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Ideas for 'works', 'Virtues and Vices' and 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism'

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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Plato says sciences are unified around Forms; Aristotle says they're unified around substance [Aristotle, by Moravcsik]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem

5485	Emeralds are naturally green, and only an external force could turn them blue [Ellis]

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

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Aristotelian explanations are facts, while modern explanations depend on human conceptions [Aristotle, by Politis]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation

3320	Aristotle's standard analysis of species and genus involves specifying things in terms of something more general [Aristotle, by Benardete,JA]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / f. Necessity in explanations

5484	Essentialists don't infer from some to all, but from essences to necessary behaviour [Ellis]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence

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Aristotle regularly says that essential properties explain other significant properties [Aristotle, by Kung]