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Ideas for 'works', 'Treatise of Human Nature, Appendix' and 'Letters to William Molyneux'

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

8660	There are potential infinities (never running out), but actual infinity is incoherent [Aristotle, by Friend]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / a. Greek matter

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Aristotle's matter can become any other kind of matter [Aristotle, by Wiggins]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction

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Causation is just invariance, as long as it is described in general terms [Quine on Hume]

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If impressions, memories and ideas only differ in vivacity, nothing says it is memory, or repetition [Whitehead on Hume]