Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Pindar, James Joule and Richard Jeffrey

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5 ideas

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions

16285

A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey]

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

19155

Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / b. Heat

20645

Heat is a state of vibration, not a substance [Joule]

20972

Joule showed that energy converts to heat, and heat to energy [Joule, by Papineau]