Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Truth and Probability' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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4 ideas

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 / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

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

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]