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All the ideas for 'Conditionals', 'Survival and Identity, with postscript' and 'comedies (frags)'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

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De re modal predicates are ambiguous [Lewis, by Rudder Baker]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals

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Validity can preserve certainty in mathematics, but conditionals about contingents are another matter [Edgington]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / b. Types of conditional

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There are many different conditional mental states, and different conditional speech acts [Edgington]

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

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Are conditionals truth-functional - do the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of 'If A, B'? [Edgington]

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'If A,B' must entail ¬(A & ¬B); otherwise we could have A true, B false, and If A,B true, invalidating modus ponens [Edgington]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

3032	I can form no notion of what the good is [Amphis]