Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'Symbolic Logic (with Langford)' and 'Precepts for Advancing Science and Arts'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts


3 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals
Modal logic began with translation difficulties for 'If...then' [Lewis,CI, by Girle]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
I don't recommend universal doubt; we constantly seek reasons for things which are indubitable [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]