Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Anaxarchus, Richard Jeffrey and Alonzo Church

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5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 7. Decidability
Validity is provable, but invalidity isn't, because the model is infinite [Church, by McGee]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions
A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]
14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem
Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson]