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All the ideas for 'On the Frame of Reference', 'The Philosophical Culture' and 'Conditionals'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

1489	Modern philosophy tends to be a theory-constructing extension of science, but there is also problem-solving [Nagel]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

10009

Substitutional quantification is just a variant of Tarski's account [Wallace, by Baldwin]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals

13768

Validity can preserve certainty in mathematics, but conditionals about contingents are another matter [Edgington]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / b. Types of conditional

13770

There are many different conditional mental states, and different conditional speech acts [Edgington]

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

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Are conditionals truth-functional - do the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of 'If A, B'? [Edgington]

13765

'If A,B' must entail ¬(A & ¬B); otherwise we could have A true, B false, and If A,B true, invalidating modus ponens [Edgington]