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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'works' and 'Fact, Fiction and Forecast (4th ed)'

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7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention

12394

If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions

14292

Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem

18749

Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew]

17646

Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

8120	Objects can be beautiful which express nothing at all, such as the rainbow [Herbart, by Tolstoy]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities

4794	We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman]