Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Kurt Vonnegut, Hermann Minkowski and Richard Jeffrey

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4 ideas

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions

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A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

19155

Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

22352

Out of more than a hundred planets, Earth is the only one with the idea of free will [Vonnegut]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time

14014

Space alone, and time alone, will fade away, and only their union has an independent reality [Minkowski]