Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Law and Causality', 'Commentary on 'Posterior Analytics'' and 'Metaphysical Foundations of Mathematics'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / b. Need for substance

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By comparing qualities and features, reason can gradually infer the nature of substance [Grosseteste]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

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Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals

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Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 8. Ramsey Sentences

6894	Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9418	All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey]

9420	Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow

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When one element contains the grounds of the other, the first one is prior in time [Leibniz]