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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Bayesianism' and 'Three Grades of Modal Involvement'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1403	A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

12219

Whether a modal claim is true depends on how the object is described [Quine, by Fine,K]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

10922

Objects are the values of variables, so a referentially opaque context cannot be quantified into [Quine]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

10923

Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

10921

Necessity can attach to statement-names, to statements, and to open sentences [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

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Necessity is in the way in which we say things, and not things themselves [Quine]

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

2799	Bayes' theorem explains why very surprising predictions have a higher value as evidence [Horwich]

2798	Probability of H, given evidence E, is prob(H) x prob(E given H) / prob(E) [Horwich]