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'Parmenides', 'Can Mechanisms Replace Laws of Nature?' and 'Beginning Logic'
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 3. Natural Function
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Rather than dispositions, functions may be the element that brought a thing into existence [Leuridan]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited
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The unlimited has no shape and is endless [Plato]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
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Some things do not partake of the One [Plato]
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The only movement possible for the One is in space or in alteration [Plato]
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Everything partakes of the One in some way [Plato]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities
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Pragmatic laws allow prediction and explanation, to the extent that reality is stable [Leuridan]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
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Strict regularities are rarely discovered in life sciences [Leuridan]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
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A 'law of nature' is just a regularity, not some entity that causes the regularity [Leuridan]
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