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All the ideas for 'Natural Science (lost)', 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics' and 'The Logic of Decision'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

527	Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions

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A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey]

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

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Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]

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A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model

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The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]