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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Aristotle and Descartes on Matter' and 'Causality and Explanation'

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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

16557

Salmon's mechanisms are processes and interactions, involving marks, or conserved quantities [Salmon, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

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

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

19399

Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]