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All the ideas for 'Fact, Fiction and Forecast (4th ed)', 'On Cruelty' and 'The Tragic Sense of Life'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

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Montaigne was the founding father of liberalism [Montaigne, by Gopnik]

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

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

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]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

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Maybe humans are distinguished from other animals by feelings, rather than reason [Unamuno]

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]