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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding' and 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes'

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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

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Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

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Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]