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Ideas for 'The Discourses', 'Concepts without Boundaries' and 'Inference to the Best Explanation (2nd)'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason

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Good inference has mechanism, precision, scope, simplicity, fertility and background fit [Lipton]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 8. Naturalising Reason

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Reason itself must be compounded from some of our impressions [Epictetus]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

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Because reason performs all analysis, we should analyse reason - but how? [Epictetus]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 4. Contraries

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Contrary pairs entail contradictions; one member entails negation of the other [Lipton]