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All the ideas for 'Conditionals', 'Categories, Classification, Cogn. Anthropology' and 'Knowledge and the State of Nature'

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7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation

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Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words [Ellen]

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]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 3. Value of Knowledge

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We have the concept of 'knowledge' as a label for good informants [Craig, by Fricker,M]