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1. For an excellent brief account of these men and others, see the article "Deism" by Ernest Campbell Mossner in the MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 2 Pp. 326-335.
2. Clarke holds a version of
what John Cottingham has called an "heirloom theory of causality"
since the theory requires that the effect ‘inherit’ some
property from its cause. There are a variety of different versions of
this kind of theory, some more reductionist than others. Clarke holds
a strongly reductionist version. Collins, by contrast, holds that
causes and effects need have nothing in common. In this respect he is
a precursor of Hume.
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