Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Probabilities of Conditionals' and 'On the Nature of Moral Values'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals

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A conditional probability does not measure the probability of the truth of any proposition [Lewis, by Edgington]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

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Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

542	Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]