Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'reports', 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World' and 'Nominalism and Realism'

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4 ideas

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

4032	The problem of universals is how many particulars can all be of the same 'type' [Armstrong]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

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

17093

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

17492

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