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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Causation in a Physical World' and 'Fifteen Sermons'

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

579	Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

578	Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

8066	Butler exalts conscience, but it may be horribly misleading [Anscombe on Butler]

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

8404	Explain single events by general rules, or vice versa, or probability explains both, or they are unconnected [Field,H]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8401	Physical laws are largely time-symmetric, so they make a poor basis for directional causation [Field,H]

8400	Identifying cause and effect is not just conventional; we explain later events by earlier ones [Field,H]

8402	The only reason for adding the notion of 'cause' to fundamental physics is directionality [Field,H]