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All the ideas for 'Counterfactuals', 'The Sense of Reality' and 'God in Plato'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 1. History of Ideas

7460	The great moments are the death of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Romanticism [Berlin, by Watson]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

23889

Among the Greeks Aristotle is the only philosopher in the modern style [Weil]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

14361

Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional [Lewis, by Jackson]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals

8434	In good counterfactuals the consequent holds in world like ours except that the antecedent is true [Lewis, by Horwich]

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

9419	A law of nature is a general axiom of the deductive system that is best for simplicity and strength [Lewis]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

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The only legitimate proof of God by order derives from beauty [Weil]