Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding' and 'Letters to Jacques Lenfant'

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3 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
The most primitive thing in substances is force, which leads to their actions and dispositions [Leibniz]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]
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]