Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Will to Believe', 'works' and 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge'

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5 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 3. Intentional Stance

3161	If mind is just an explanation, the explainer must have beliefs [Rey on Dennett]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology

3177	You couldn't drive a car without folk psychology [Dennett]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

6570	Imagine millions made happy on condition that one person suffers endless lonely torture [James]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

15251

The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]