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All the ideas for 'Conditionals', 'talk' and 'Phenomenology of Perception'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals
13768 Validity can preserve certainty in mathematics, but conditionals about contingents are another matter [Edgington]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / b. Types of conditional
13770 There are many different conditional mental states, and different conditional speech acts [Edgington]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals
13764 Are conditionals truth-functional - do the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of 'If A, B'? [Edgington]
13765 'If A,B' must entail ¬(A & ¬B); otherwise we could have A true, B false, and If A,B true, invalidating modus ponens [Edgington]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito
21862 Consciousness is based on 'I can', not on 'I think' [Merleau-Ponty]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation
20750 The mind does not unite perceptions, because they flow into one another [Merleau-Ponty]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy
5210 We could know what a lion thinks by mapping both its brain patterns and its experiences [Douglas,A]