Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Sign of Four', 'From Stimulus to Science' and 'The Barcan Formula and Metaphysics'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

6564	To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine]

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

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The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen]

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The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen]

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BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen]

14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction

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If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle]