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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reply to Sixth Objections' and 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

3644	Two things being joined together doesn't prove they are the same [Descartes]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

3013	Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism

3621	Only judgement decides which of our senses are reliable [Descartes]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1494	Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle]

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

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Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

1713	Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality

3637	Ideas in God's mind only have value if he makes it so [Descartes]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

1742	Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]