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All the ideas for 'Fact, Fiction and Forecast (4th ed)', 'The Pragmatist Account of Truth' and 'Medical Conceptions of Health pre-Renaissance'

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9 ideas

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

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Man has an intense natural interest in the consistency of his own thinking [James]

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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / c. Facts and truths

22641

Realities just are, and beliefs are true of them [James]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism

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We find satisfaction in consistency of all of our beliefs, perceptions and mental connections [James]

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]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health

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The Greeks had a single word meaning both 'beautiful' and 'good' [Pormann]

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]