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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals
10993 Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals
14279 Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention
1556 By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 8. Ramsey Sentences
6894 Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
9418 All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey]
9420 Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality
7482 Resurrection developed in Judaism as a response to martyrdoms, in about 160 BCE [Anon (Dan), by Watson]