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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason' and 'The Problem of Knowledge'

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11 ideas

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy

19463

Induction assumes some uniformity in nature, or that in some respects the future is like the past [Ayer]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique

19459

To say 'I am not thinking' must be false, but it might have been true, so it isn't self-contradictory [Ayer]

19460

'I know I exist' has no counterevidence, so it may be meaningless [Ayer]

19461

Knowing I exist reveals nothing at all about my nature [Ayer]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

19464

We only discard a hypothesis after one failure if it appears likely to keep on failing [Ayer]

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

19462

Induction passes from particular facts to other particulars, or to general laws, non-deductively [Ayer]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

20034

Intentions must be mutually consistent, affirm appropriate means, and fit the agent's beliefs [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20033

Intentions are normative, requiring commitment and further plans [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / b. Types of intention

20026

Intention is either the aim of an action, or a long-term constraint on what we can do [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

20032

Bratman rejected reducing intentions to belief-desire, because they motivate, and have their own standards [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

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

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