Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Papancasudani', 'An Enquiry' and 'The Doctrine of Necessity Examined'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance

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Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

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We treat testimony with a natural trade off of belief and caution [Reid, by Fricker,M]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

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Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 1. Causing Death

7907	Human killing is worse if the victim is virtuous [Buddhaghosa]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory

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If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

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The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce]