Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Menedemus, Thomas Bayes and Nuel D. Belnap

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4 ideas

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox

19000

Read 'all ravens are black' as about ravens, not as about an implication [Belnap]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

14280

The probability of two events is the first probability times the second probability assuming the first [Bayes]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation

17897

Analytic explanation is wholes in terms of parts; synthetic is parts in terms of wholes or contexts [Belnap]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]