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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Causation in a Physical World' and 'The Principles of Science'

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6 ideas

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

8628	I hold that algebra and number are developments of logic [Jevons]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

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]