Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Conditionals', 'Discipline and Punish' and 'Quining Qualia'

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7 ideas

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]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia
6624 Dennett denies the existence of qualia [Dennett, by Lowe]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / a. Centralisation
21947 Power is localised, so we either have totalitarian centralisation, or local politics [Foucault, by Gutting]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
21946 Prisons gradually became our models for schools, hospitals and factories [Foucault, by Gutting]