Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Bertrand Russell and Ian Hacking

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
22308 Only the actual exists, so possibilities always reduce to actuality after full analysis [Russell]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency
21533 Contingency arises from tensed verbs changing the propositions to which they refer [Russell]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 6. Probability
7447 Probability was fully explained between 1654 and 1812 [Hacking]
7448 Probability is statistical (behaviour of chance devices) or epistemological (belief based on evidence) [Hacking]
7449 Epistemological probability based either on logical implications or coherent judgments [Hacking]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals
12197 Inferring q from p only needs p to be true, and 'not-p or q' to be true [Russell]
14450 All forms of implication are expressible as truth-functions [Russell]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals
22303 It makes no sense to say that a true proposition could have been false [Russell]