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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / a. Final purpose
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For Anaxagoras the Good Mind has no opposite, and causes all movement, for a higher reason [Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / a. Greek matter
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Mind creates the world from a mixture of pure substances [Anaxagoras, by ]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances
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Anaxagoras said that the number of principles was infinite [Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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The ultimate constituents of reality are the homoeomeries [Anaxagoras, by Vlastos]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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Anaxagoreans regard the homoeomeries as elements, which compose earth, air, fire and water [Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds
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Natural kinds, such as electrons, all behave the same way because we divide them by dispositions [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
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Anaxagoras says mind produces order and causes everything [Anaxagoras, by Plato]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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In the 'laws' view events are basic, and properties are categorical, only existing when manifested [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities
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Without laws, how can a dispositionalist explain general behaviour within kinds? [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
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It is a regularity that whenever a person sneezes, someone (somewhere) promptly coughs [Mumford]
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Dretske and Armstrong base laws on regularities between individual properties, not between events [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
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The necessity of an electron being an electron is conceptual, and won't ground necessary laws [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
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Some dispositions are so far unknown, until we learn how to manifest them [Mumford]
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