Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Critical Common-Sensism' and 'Do Conditionals Have Truth Conditions?'

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8 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects
14798 All communication is vague, and is outside the principle of non-contradiction [Peirce]
14797 Vagueness is a neglected but important part of mathematical thought [Peirce]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 6. Probability
13857 Truth-functional possibilities include the irrelevant, which is a mistake [Edgington]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals
13853 It is a mistake to think that conditionals are statements about how the world is [Edgington]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals
13855 A conditional does not have truth conditions [Edgington]
13859 X believes 'if A, B' to the extent that A & B is more likely than A & ¬B [Edgington]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals
13854 Conditionals express what would be the outcome, given some supposition [Edgington]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
3061 Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]