Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Against Method' and 'Logic and Conversation'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science
6601 Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals
13856 Conditionals are truth-functional, but we must take care with misleading ones [Grice, by Edgington]
8948 The odd truth table for material conditionals is explained by conversational conventions [Grice, by Fisher]
13767 Conditionals might remain truth-functional, despite inappropriate conversational remarks [Edgington on Grice]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals
14277 A person can be justified in believing a proposition, though it is unreasonable to actually say it [Grice, by Edgington]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 6. Theory Holism
2561 For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
5996 Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA]