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All the ideas for 'Changes in Events and Changes in Things', 'Frege on Knowing the Foundations' and 'Philosophical Essay on Probability'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation
17622 We come to believe mathematical propositions via their grounding in the structure [Burge]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
15201 That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony
7458 The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
3441 If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series
22899 'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN]