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All the ideas for 'Conditionals', '10: Ephesians' and 'Comments on a Certain Broadsheet'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
23766 Don't be tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, by cunning deceptive men [Paul]
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]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
2602 What experience could prove 'If a=c and b=c then a=b'? [Descartes]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts
2601 Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them [Descartes]
2600 The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought [Descartes]