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All the ideas for 'Rationality', 'On the Individuation of Attributes' and 'fragments/reports'

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12 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

6950	You can be rational with undetected or minor inconsistencies [Harman]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

6954	A coherent conceptual scheme contains best explanations of most of your beliefs [Harman]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

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Because things can share attributes, we cannot individuate attributes clearly [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

18442

You only know an attribute if you know what things have it [Quine]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

18441

No entity without identity (which requires a principle of individuation) [Quine]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

18440

Identity of physical objects is just being coextensive [Quine]

14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction

6955	Enumerative induction is inference to the best explanation [Harman]

14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction

6952	Induction is 'defeasible', since additional information can invalidate it [Harman]

14. Science / C. Induction / 4. Reason in Induction

6953	All reasoning is inductive, and deduction only concerns implication [Harman]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

6951	Ordinary rationality is conservative, starting from where your beliefs currently are [Harman]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

13304

Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]