Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Definition of Good', 'Why Propositions Aren't Truth-Supporting Circumstance' and 'Truth and Probability'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

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'If' is the same as 'given that', so the degrees of belief should conform to probability theory [Ramsey, by Ramsey]

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

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Ramsey gave axioms for an uncertain agent to decide their preferences [Ramsey, by Davidson]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

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Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism

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The ground for an attitude is not a thing's 'goodness', but its concrete characteristics [Ewing]