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All the ideas for 'Making It Explicit', 'The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences' and 'The Doctrine of Necessity Examined'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
10355 Facts can't make claims true, because they are true claims [Brandom, by Kusch]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance
14804 Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce]
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / d. Consilience
20643 Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
14805 Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
14806 If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
14803 The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce]