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All the ideas for 'Probabilities of Conditionals', 'Some Main Problems of Philosophy' and 'The Evolution of Physics'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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The main aim of philosophy is to describe the whole Universe. [Moore,GE]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals

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A conditional probability does not measure the probability of the truth of any proposition [Lewis, by Edgington]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]