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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Law and Causality' and 'Contributions of Philosophy (On Appropriation)'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

15586

When philosophy makes itself intelligible, it commits suicide [Heidegger]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

10993

Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals

14279

Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 8. Ramsey Sentences

6894	Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / c. Deterrence of crime

1743	The greatest deterrence for injustice is if uninjured parties feel as much indignation as those who are injured [Solon, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9420	Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey]

9418	All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey]