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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Essay on Probability', 'Preface to 'Dorian Gray'' and 'Introducing Persons'

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8 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

7458	The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations

1394	Can the mental elements of a 'bundle' exist on their own? [Carruthers]

1395	Why would a thought be a member of one bundle rather than another? [Carruthers]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / c. Inadequacy of mental continuity

1396	We identify persons before identifying conscious states [Carruthers]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

3441	If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art

7276	All art is quite useless [Wilde]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

7274	Books are only well or badly written, not moral or immoral [Wilde]

7275	Having ethical sympathies is a bad mannerism of style in an artist [Wilde]