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All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'The Runabout Inference Ticket' and 'Later Letters to Dedekind'

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6 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

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Cantor gives informal versions of ZF axioms as ways of getting from one set to another [Cantor, by Lake]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

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We need to know the meaning of 'and', prior to its role in reasoning [Prior,AN, by Belnap]

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Prior's 'tonk' is inconsistent, since it allows the non-conservative inference A |- B [Belnap on Prior,AN]

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Prior rejected accounts of logical connectives by inference pattern, with 'tonk' his absurd example [Prior,AN, by Read]

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Maybe introducing or defining logical connectives by rules of inference leads to absurdity [Prior,AN, by Hacking]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9425	Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]