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All the ideas for 'The Search After Truth', 'On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals' and 'Reply to Professor Frankena'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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'If A,B' affirms that A⊃B, and also that this wouldn't change if A were certain [Jackson, by Edgington]

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Conditionals are truth-functional, but should only be asserted when they are confident [Jackson, by Edgington]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 4. Categorical Imperative

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Moral judgements are hypothetical, because they depend on interests and desires [Foot]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche]