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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Il Saggiatore ('The Assayer')' and 'The Logic of Decision'

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8 ideas

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

579	Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

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

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

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

7401	Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck]

5454	Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

578	Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

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

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

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

3645	To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo]