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All the ideas for 'Fact, Fiction and Forecast (4th ed)', '11: Book of Kings 1' and 'On 'The Beginning of Philosophy''

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Philosophy is distinguished from other sciences by its complete lack of presuppositions [Feuerbach]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention

12394

If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / n. Pi

17914

He made a molten sea, which was ten cubits across, and thirty cubits round the edge [Anon (Kings)]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions

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Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem

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Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew]

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Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities

4794	We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman]