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All the ideas for 'What is so bad about Contradictions?', 'The Doctrine of Necessity Examined' and 'Sense Data and the Percept Theory'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9123	Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance

14804

Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

6493	We are not conscious of pure liquidity, but of the liquidity of water [Firth]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

14805

Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory

14806

If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

14803

The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce]