Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Evolution of Co-Operation' and 'Logic and Conversation'

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8 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals
13856 Conditionals are truth-functional, but we must take care with misleading ones [Grice, by Edgington]
8948 The odd truth table for material conditionals is explained by conversational conventions [Grice, by Fisher]
13767 Conditionals might remain truth-functional, despite inappropriate conversational remarks [Edgington on Grice]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals
14277 A person can be justified in believing a proposition, though it is unreasonable to actually say it [Grice, by Edgington]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 8. Contract Strategies
22724 Good strategies avoid conflict, respond to hostility, forgive, and are clear [Axelrod]
22725 When players don't meet again, defection is the best strategy [Axelrod]
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]