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All the ideas for 'Law and Causality', 'Necessary Truth' and 'Aspects of the Theory of Syntax'

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7 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

4577	There is no necessity higher than natural necessity, and that is just regularity [Quine]

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

10993

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

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

14279

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]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax

18006

Chomsky's 'interpretative semantics' says syntax comes first, and is then interpreted [Chomsky, by Magidor]

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]