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All the ideas for 'On Providence', 'Against the Mathematicians' and 'Fact, Fiction and Forecast (4th ed)'

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5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention
12394 If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
14292 Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs
20795 Some things are their own criterion, such as straightness, a set of scales, or light [Sext.Empiricus]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
20794 How can sceptics show there is no criterion? Weak without, contradiction with [Sext.Empiricus]
14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem
18749 Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew]
17646 Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
13550 To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / a. External goods
13549 Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities
4794 We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces
13548 The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca]