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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reflections on my Critics' and 'Truth and Probability'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus]

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth

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'Truth' may only apply within a theory [Kuhn]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

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'If' is the same as 'given that', so the degrees of belief should conform to probability theory [Ramsey, by Ramsey]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

6809	Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability

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In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn]

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

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Ramsey gave axioms for an uncertain agent to decide their preferences [Ramsey, by Davidson]