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Expansion for Knowledge Criteria

1060 1. Philosophy
633 2. Reason
630 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1246 5. Theory of Logic
1191 6. Mathematics
1059 7. Existence
896 8. Modes of Existence
1532 9. Objects
800 10. Modality
490 11. Knowledge Aims
717 12. Knowledge Sources
636 13. Knowledge Criteria
A. Justification Problems
15 1. Justification a. Justification issues
13 b. Need for justification
10 c. Defeasibility
10 2. Justification Challenges a. Agrippa's trilemma
13 b. Gettier problem
17 c. Knowledge closure
24 3. Internal or External a. Pro-internalism
5 b. Pro-externalism
3 c. Disjunctivism
B. Internal Justification
10 1. Epistemic virtues
8 2. Pragmatic justification
17 3. Evidentialism a. Evidence
9 b. Evidentialism
16 4. Foundationalism a. Foundationalism
15 b. Basic beliefs
11 c. Empirical foundations
8 d. Rational foundations
6 e. Pro-foundations
18 f. Foundationalism critique
31 5. Coherentism a. Coherence as justification
18 b. Pro-coherentism
23 c. Coherentism critique
C. External Justification
20 1. External Justification
14 2. Causal Justification
14 3. Reliabilism a. Reliable knowledge
15 b. Anti-reliabilism
3 4. Tracking the Facts
5 5. Controlling Beliefs
18 6. Contextual Justification a. Contextualism
10 b. Invariantism
18 7. Testimony
9 8. Social Justification
7 9. Naturalised Epistemology
7 10. Anti External Justification
D. Scepticism
33 1. Scepticism
8 2. Types of Scepticism
18 3. Illusion Scepticism
3 4. Demon Scepticism
7 5. Dream Scepticism
30 6. Scepticism Critique
E. Relativism
31 1. Relativism
4 2. Knowledge as Convention
22 3. Subjectivism
12 4. Cultural relativism
7 5. Language Relativism
19 6. Relativism Critique
679 14. Science
557 15. Nature of Minds
496 16. Persons
495 17. Mind and Body
867 18. Thought
840 19. Language
323 20. Action
272 21. Aesthetics
988 22. Metaethics
1001 23. Ethics
973 24. Political Theory
773 25. Social Practice
998 26. Natural Theory
727 27. Natural Reality
429 28. God
309 29. Religion