Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Blue and Brown Notebooks', 'From Stimulus to Science' and 'Truth and Probability'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

6564	To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine]

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

13766

'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

19143

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

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'

22419

'I' is a subject in 'I am in pain' and an object in 'I am bleeding' [Wittgenstein, by McGinn]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6318	The doctrine of indeterminacy of translation seems implied by the later Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Quine]