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All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'Introduction to 'Evidentialism'' and 'Reference and Essence: seven appendices'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / g. Degrees of vagueness

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It can't be indeterminate whether x and y are identical; if x,y is indeterminate, then it isn't x,x [Salmon,N]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

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Evidentialism says justifications supervene on the available evidence [Conee/Feldman]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / a. Direct reference

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Kripke and Putnam made false claims that direct reference implies essentialism [Salmon,N]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

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Rational decisions are either taken to be based on evidence, or to be explained causally [Conee/Feldman]

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

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The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]