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All the ideas for 'Conditionals', 'Method and Results' and 'Steps Towards a Constructive Nominalism'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

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We renounce all abstract entities [Goodman/Quine]

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]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 6. Epiphenomenalism

3157	T.H.Huxley gave the earliest clear statement of epiphenomenalism [Huxley, by Rey]

3154	Brain causes mind, but it doesn't seem that mind causes actions [Huxley]