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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Causes and Counterfactuals' and 'Properties and Predicates'

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11 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties

8568	A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

8564	There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals

8566	We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism

8565	If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

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

8430	Causal statements are used to explain, to predict, to control, to attribute responsibility, and in theories [Kim]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation

8567	Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

8396	Many counterfactuals have nothing to do with causation [Kim, by Tooley]

8429	Counterfactuals can express four other relations between events, apart from causation [Kim]

8428	Causation is not the only dependency relation expressed by counterfactuals [Kim]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims

4781	Many counterfactual truths do not imply causation ('if yesterday wasn't Monday, it isn't Tuesday') [Kim, by Psillos]