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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'Sententia on 'De Caelo'' and 'Truth and Probability'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

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Philosophy aims to know the truth about the way things are [Aquinas]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

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]