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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Gorgias' and 'Inference to the Best Explanation (2nd)'

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

16841

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

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

16854

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

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 2. Elenchus

1654	In "Gorgias" Socrates is confident that his 'elenchus' will decide moral truth [Vlastos on Plato]

4321	We should test one another, by asking and answering questions [Plato]