Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?' and 'Law and Causality'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

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

10993

Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals

14279

Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / b. Gettier problem

8886	Being a true justified belief is not a sufficient condition for knowledge [Gettier]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 8. Ramsey Sentences

6894	Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9418	All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey]

9420	Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey]