Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Testability and Meaning', 'Theory of Knowledge (2nd ed 1977)' and 'Letters to Foucher'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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In the truth-functional account a burnt-up match was soluble because it never entered water [Carnap]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 5. Aiming at Truth

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We have a basic epistemic duty to believe truth and avoid error [Chisholm, by Kvanvig]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

2117	The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz]