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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Virtues of Authenticity'', 'Completeness of Axioms of Logic' and 'The Logic of Decision'

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4. Formal Logic / C. Predicate Calculus PC / 3. Completeness of PC

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Gödel proved the completeness of first order predicate logic in 1930 [Gödel, by Walicki]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms

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Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

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Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas]

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]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas]

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

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