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All the ideas for 'The Facts of Causation', 'Truth and Probability' and 'works'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths

10365

We might use 'facta' to refer to the truth-makers for facts [Mellor, by Schaffer,J]

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

13766

'If' is the same as 'given that', so the degrees of belief should conform to probability theory [Ramsey, by Ramsey]

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

19143

Ramsey gave axioms for an uncertain agent to decide their preferences [Ramsey, by Davidson]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

7258	The forefather of modern intuitionism is Richard Price [Price,R, by Dancy,J]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

4785	Causal statements relate facts (which are whatever true propositions express) [Mellor, by Psillos]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation

8408	Probabilistic causation says C is a cause of E if it increases the chances of E occurring [Mellor, by Tooley]