Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science', 'Truth and Probability' and 'People and Their Bodies'

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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How can point-duration slices of people have beliefs or desires? [Thomson]

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]

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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

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Science is the reduction of diverse forces and powers to a smaller number that explain them [Kant]