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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Causal Explanation' and 'Transworld Identity or worldbound Individuals?'

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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

15555

Explaining match lighting in general is like explaining one lighting of a match [Lewis]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / d. Selecting the cause

15551

Ways of carving causes may be natural, but never 'right' [Lewis]

15552

We only pick 'the' cause for the purposes of some particular enquiry. [Lewis]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

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Causal dependence is counterfactual dependence between events [Lewis]