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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Bayesianism' and 'Vague Identity: Evans misunderstood'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
16458 Semantic vagueness involves alternative and equal precisifications of the language [Lewis]
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]
19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial
1554 Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique
1555 People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
1543 He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus]
535 The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus]