Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Conditionals', 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding' and 'Repetition'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth
22094 Subjective truth can only be sustained by repetition [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
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 / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
19261 Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
22093 Life is a repetition when what has been now becomes [Kierkegaard]