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All the ideas for 'Bayesianism', 'Protrepticus (frags)' and 'Episteme and Logos in later Plato'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

17949

Inquiry is the cause of philosophy [Aristotle]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

17950

The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects [Nehamas]

17951

A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object [Nehamas]

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

2798	Probability of H, given evidence E, is prob(H) x prob(E given H) / prob(E) [Horwich]

2799	Bayes' theorem explains why very surprising predictions have a higher value as evidence [Horwich]