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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Nature Without Essence' and 'The Possibility of Metaphysics'

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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

8317	To cite facts as the elements in causation is to confuse states of affairs with states of objects [Lowe]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / e. Anti scientific essentialism

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Defining an essence comes no where near giving a thing's nature [Almog]

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Essences promise to reveal reality, but actually drive us away from it [Almog]