Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'works' and 'Consilience'

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4 ideas

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

9355	One sort of circularity presupposes a premise, the other presupposes a rule being used [Braithwaite, by Devitt]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / h. System S5

7791	The simplest of the logics based on possible worlds is Lewis's S5 [Lewis,CI, by Girle]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

11002

Equating necessity with informal provability is the S4 conception of necessity [Lewis,CI, by Read]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

20662

The biology of societies: kin selection, parenting, mating; status, territory, contracts [Wilson,EO]