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All the ideas for 'The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science', 'The Nature of Rationality' and 'Probability and Logic of Rational Belief'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

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The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' [Leroi]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

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I do not care if my trivial beliefs are false, and I have no interest in many truths [Nozick]

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

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Maybe James was depicting the value of truth, and not its nature [Nozick]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 4. Paradoxes in Logic / e. The Lottery paradox

6368	If my ticket won't win the lottery (and it won't), no other tickets will either [Kyburg, by Pollock/Cruz]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

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Rationality is normally said to concern either giving reasons, or reliability [Nozick]

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In the instrumental view of rationality it only concerns means, and not ends [Nozick]

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Is it rational to believe a truth which leads to permanent misery? [Nozick]

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Rationality needs some self-consciousness, to also evaluate how we acquired our reasons [Nozick]