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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Nature of Moral Values' and 'A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic'

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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 1. Modal Logic

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Propositional modal logic has been proved to be complete [Kripke, by Feferman/Feferman]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / a. Systems of modal logic

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With possible worlds, S4 and S5 are sound and complete, but S1-S3 are not even sound [Kripke, by Rossberg]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

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The variable domain approach to quantified modal logic invalidates the Barcan Formula [Kripke, by Simchen]

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The Barcan formulas fail in models with varying domains [Kripke, by Williamson]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

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Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine]

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 / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

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