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All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'fragments/reports' and 'Many, but almost one'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

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Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

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If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

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We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

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Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus]

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]