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All the ideas for 'Changes in Events and Changes in Things', 'Essay on a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances' and 'Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact

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That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN]

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

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The probability of two events is the first probability times the second probability assuming the first [Bayes]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

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Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

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Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham]

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

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'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN]