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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Logic of Decision' and 'An American Indian model of the Universe'

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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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

3916	Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 4. Paradigm

3917	Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf]

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

19155

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

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series

3915	The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]