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Ideas of Simon Blackburn, by Text
[British, b.1944, Professor at Cambridge University.]
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6.5
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p.217
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Asserting a necessity just expresses our inability to imagine it is false
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1
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p.635
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If we are told the source of necessity, this seems to be a regress if the source is not already necessary
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p.120-1
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p.6
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If something underlies a necessity, is that underlying thing necessary or contingent? [Hale/Hoffmann,A]
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1994
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Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
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p.198
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p.198
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2864
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The main objection to intuitionism in ethics is that intuition is a disguise for prejudice or emotion
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p.300
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p.300
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2865
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Critics of prescriptivism observe that it is consistent to accept an ethical verdict but refuse to be bound by it
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p.327
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p.327
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2866
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A true belief might be based on a generally reliable process that failed on this occasion
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p.347
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p.347
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6451
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Visual sense data are an inner picture show which represents the world
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p.191
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p.191
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Akrasia is intelligible in hindsight, when we revisit our previous emotions
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2002
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Précis of 'Ruling Passions'
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p.133
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p.133
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Some philosophers always want more from morality; for others, nature is enough
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2005
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Religion and Respect
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p.2
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p.
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The word 'respect' ranges from mere non-interference to the highest levels of reverence
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