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All the ideas for 'Necessary Existents', 'Do Conditionals Have Truth Conditions?' and 'On Mental Entities'

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8 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 6. Probability
13857 Truth-functional possibilities include the irrelevant, which is a mistake [Edgington]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals
13853 It is a mistake to think that conditionals are statements about how the world is [Edgington]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals
13855 A conditional does not have truth conditions [Edgington]
13859 X believes 'if A, B' to the extent that A & B is more likely than A & ¬B [Edgington]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals
13854 Conditionals express what would be the outcome, given some supposition [Edgington]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems
21686 Sense-data are dubious abstractions, with none of the plausibility of tables [Quine]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
21685 Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions
19216 Propositions (such as 'that dog is barking') only exist if their items exist [Williamson]