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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Meaning of the Word ' and 'On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth

6710	You can only define a statement that something is 'true' by referring to its functional possibilities [James]

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

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If the hypothesis of God is widely successful, it is true [James]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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'If A,B' affirms that A⊃B, and also that this wouldn't change if A were certain [Jackson, by Edgington]

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Conditionals are truth-functional, but should only be asserted when they are confident [Jackson, by Edgington]

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

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