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All the ideas for 'Nine political essays', 'On Simple Theories of a Complex World' and 'Intending'

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5 ideas

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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It seems obvious to prefer the simpler of two theories, on grounds of beauty and convenience [Quine]

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There are four suspicious reasons why we prefer simpler theories [Quine]

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

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An intending is a judgement that the action is desirable [Davidson]

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

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Davidson gave up reductive accounts of intention, and said it was a primitive [Davidson, by Wilson/Schpall]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights

6581	Hume thought (unlike Locke) that property is a merely conventional relationship [Hume, by Fogelin]