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Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Martin Kusch and Friedrich Nietzsche

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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification
20122 We have no organ for knowledge or truth; we only 'know' what is useful to the human herd [Nietzsche]
20140 We shouldn't object to a false judgement, if it enhances and preserves life [Nietzsche]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique
10339 Foundations seem utterly private, even from oneself at a later time [Kusch]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
10331 Testimony is reliable if it coheres with evidence for a belief, and with other beliefs [Kusch]
10338 The coherentist restricts the space of reasons to the realm of beliefs [Kusch]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique
23206 Schematic minds think thoughts are truer if they slot into a scheme [Nietzsche]
10340 Individualistic coherentism lacks access to all of my beliefs, or critical judgement of my assessment [Kusch]
10345 Individual coherentism cannot generate the necessary normativity [Kusch]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification
10350 Cultures decide causal routes, and they can be critically assessed [Kusch]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
10343 Process reliabilism has been called 'virtue epistemology', resting on perception, memory, reason [Kusch]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism
10341 Justification depends on the audience and one's social role [Kusch]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony
10334 Testimony is an area in which epistemology meets ethics [Kusch]
10336 Powerless people are assumed to be unreliable, even about their own lives [Kusch]
10324 Testimony does not just transmit knowledge between individuals - it actually generates knowledge [Kusch]
10327 Some want to reduce testimony to foundations of perceptions, memories and inferences [Kusch]
10329 Testimony won't reduce to perception, if perception depends on social concepts and categories [Kusch]
10330 A foundation is what is intelligible, hence from a rational source, and tending towards truth [Kusch]
10325 Vindicating testimony is an expression of individualism [Kusch]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification
10335 Myths about lonely genius are based on epistemological individualism [Kusch]
10323 Communitarian Epistemology says 'knowledge' is a social status granted to groups of people [Kusch]
10348 Private justification is justification to imagined other people [Kusch]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
14872 Our knowledge is illogical, because it rests on false identities between things [Nietzsche]
14879 The most extreme scepticism is when you even give up logic [Nietzsche]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism
4423 We assume causes, geometry, motion, bodies etc to live, but they haven't been proved [Nietzsche]
24124 We now have innumerable perspectives to draw on [Nietzsche]
23209 Each of our personal drives has its own perspective [Nietzsche]
4420 There is only 'perspective' seeing and knowing, and so the best objectivity is multiple points of view [Nietzsche]
4486 The extreme view is there are only perspectives, no true beliefs, because there is no true world [Nietzsche]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism
6579 Nietzsche's perspectivism says our worldview depends on our personality [Nietzsche, by Fogelin]
24083 It would be absurd to say we are only permitted our own single perspective [Nietzsche]
7149 Comprehending everything is impossible, because it abolishes perspectives [Nietzsche]
7169 Is the perspectival part of the essence, or just a relation between beings? [Nietzsche]
7182 'Perspectivism': the world has no meaning, but various interpretations give it countless meanings [Nietzsche]
7183 'Subjectivity' is an interpretation, since subjects (and interpreters) are fictions [Nietzsche]
7133 There are different eyes, so different 'truths', so there is no truth [Nietzsche]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
2877 Morality becomes a problem when we compare many moralities [Nietzsche]