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All the ideas for 'works', 'Law and Causality' and 'Introduction to 'Evidentialism''

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 3. Contradiction

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

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Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals

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Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

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Evidentialism says justifications supervene on the available evidence [Conee/Feldman]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 8. Ramsey Sentences

6894	Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

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Rational decisions are either taken to be based on evidence, or to be explained causally [Conee/Feldman]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9418	All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey]

9420	Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey]