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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Truth and Probability' and 'Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism'

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7 ideas

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

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'If' is the same as 'given that', so the degrees of belief should conform to probability theory [Ramsey, by Ramsey]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

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Ramsey gave axioms for an uncertain agent to decide their preferences [Ramsey, by Davidson]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

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A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E]

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The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E]

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We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E]

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We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E]