Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'Aesthetics: problems in the philosophy of criticism' and 'The Nature of Rationality'

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8 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

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I do not care if my trivial beliefs are false, and I have no interest in many truths [Nozick]

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

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Maybe James was depicting the value of truth, and not its nature [Nozick]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

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Rationality is normally said to concern either giving reasons, or reliability [Nozick]

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In the instrumental view of rationality it only concerns means, and not ends [Nozick]

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Is it rational to believe a truth which leads to permanent misery? [Nozick]

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Rationality needs some self-consciousness, to also evaluate how we acquired our reasons [Nozick]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art

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Art leads to mental health, and mental clarity [Beardsley,M, by Carroll,N]

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]