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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Logic and Conversation' and 'Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason'

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9 ideas

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]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

20033

Intentions are normative, requiring commitment and further plans [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20034

Intentions must be mutually consistent, affirm appropriate means, and fit the agent's beliefs [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / b. Types of intention

20026

Intention is either the aim of an action, or a long-term constraint on what we can do [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

20032

Bratman rejected reducing intentions to belief-desire, because they motivate, and have their own standards [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]