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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
7176 'Purpose' is like the sun, where most heat is wasted, and a tiny part has 'purpose' [Nietzsche]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied
7195 If the world aimed at an end, it would have reached it by now [Nietzsche]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
17692 We can't deduce the phenomena from the One [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
17689 Absences might be effects, but surely not causes? [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
17662 Science depends on laws of nature to study unobserved times and spaces [Armstrong]
17682 A universe couldn't consist of mere laws [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 2. Types of Laws
17690 Oaken conditional laws, Iron universal laws, and Steel necessary laws [Armstrong, by PG]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities
17670 Newton's First Law refers to bodies not acted upon by a force, but there may be no such body [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
8582 Regularities are lawful if a second-order universal unites two first-order universals [Armstrong, by Lewis]
17671 A naive regularity view says if it never occurs then it is impossible [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
17681 The laws of nature link properties with properties [Armstrong]
16246 Rather than take necessitation between universals as primitive, just make laws primitive [Maudlin on Armstrong]
9480 Armstrong has an unclear notion of contingent necessitation, which can't necessitate anything [Bird on Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
7206 Things are strong or weak, and do not behave regularly or according to rules or compulsions [Nietzsche]
7140 Chemical 'laws' are merely the establishment of power relations between weaker and stronger [Nietzsche]
7142 All motions and 'laws' are symptoms of inner events, traceable to the will to power [Nietzsche]