Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals', 'Anti-Semite and Jew' and 'fragments/reports'

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4 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals
'If A,B' affirms that A⊃B, and also that this wouldn't change if A were certain [Jackson, by Edgington]
Conditionals are truth-functional, but should only be asserted when they are confident [Jackson, by Edgington]
23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 2. Hedonism
All inventions of the mind aim at pleasure, and those that don't are worthless [Metrodorus of Lamp., by Plutarch]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
Authenticity is taking responsibility for a situation, with all its risks and emotions [Sartre]