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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World' and 'On the Frame of Reference'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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Substitutional quantification is just a variant of Tarski's account [Wallace, by Baldwin]

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]

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

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Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon]

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Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon]