Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals', 'Explanation in Mathematics' and 'Fragments'

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4 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

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Essences are no use in mathematics, if all mathematical truths are necessary [Mancosu]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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'If A,B' affirms that A⊃B, and also that this wouldn't change if A were certain [Jackson, by Edgington]

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Conditionals are truth-functional, but should only be asserted when they are confident [Jackson, by Edgington]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history

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Dividing history books into separate chapters is disastrous [Weil]