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CONCEPTUAL AND NATURAL NECESSITY
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A. Conceptual necessity in statements of causality
Our fundamental contention is that the necessity that is such a striking feature of the conceptual relation between the predicates descriptive of events, things and states of affairs as causes and the predicates descriptive of their usual effects, as it is unreflectingly understood, matches a natural necessity in the relation between the states, powers and natures of those physical systems which in fact constitute the universe. In this chapter we undertake the task of exactly locating these concepts in preparation for the detailed analyses to come.
That there is a conceptual necessity involved in statements descriptive of causal ...
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