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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Law and Causality' and 'Logic as Semiotic: Theory of Signs'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals
10993 Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals
14279 Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 8. Ramsey Sentences
6894 Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey]
19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
7634 Icons resemble their subject, an index is a natural sign, and symbols are conventional [Peirce, by Maund]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
13304 Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
9420 Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey]
9418 All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure
20820 Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]