Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding' and 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals

10990

Conditionals are truth-functional, but unassertable in tricky cases? [Grice, by Read]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19261

Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

10991

Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

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Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6610	I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian]