Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Plotinus, Aristotle and David Bostock

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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification

8331	To know something we need understanding, which is grasp of the primary cause [Aristotle]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma

1671	Sceptics say justification is an infinite regress, or it stops at the unknowable [Aristotle]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs

1670	When you understand basics, you can't be persuaded to change your mind [Aristotle]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / e. Pro-foundations

583	The starting point of a proof is not a proof [Aristotle]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 5. Dream Scepticism

581	Dreams aren't a serious problem. No one starts walking round Athens next morning, having dreamt that they were there! [Aristotle]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism

584	If truth is relative it is relational, and concerns appearances relative to a situation [Aristotle]

585	If relativism is individual, how can something look sweet and not taste it, or look different to our two eyes? [Aristotle]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique

576	If the majority had diseased taste, and only a few were healthy, relativists would have to prefer the former [Aristotle]