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All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Essay on a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances' and 'works'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6782	Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

22181

Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]

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

14280

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