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Ideas for '(Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics', 'fragments/reports' 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 / 6. Coherence

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Reasoning aims at increasing explanatory coherence [Harman]

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Reason conservatively: stick to your beliefs, and prefer reasoning that preserves most of them [Harman]

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

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