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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

2745	A pupil who lacks confidence may clearly know something but not be certain of it [Dancy,J]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

2755	If senses are fallible, then being open to correction is an epistemological virtue [Dancy,J]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / a. Naïve realism

5677	Naïve direct realists hold that objects retain all of their properties when unperceived [Dancy,J]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / b. Direct realism

5678	Scientific direct realism says we know some properties of objects directly [Dancy,J]

5681	Maybe we are forced from direct into indirect realism by the need to explain perceptual error [Dancy,J]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / c. Representative realism

5683	Indirect realism depends on introspection, the time-lag, illusions, and neuroscience [Dancy,J, by PG]

5682	Internal realism holds that we perceive physical objects via mental objects [Dancy,J]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

2778	Phenomenalism includes possible experiences, but idealism only refers to actual experiences [Dancy,J]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

5684	Eliminative idealists say there are no objects; reductive idealists say objects exist as complex experiences [Dancy,J]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 4. Solipsism

2777	Extreme solipsism only concerns current experience, but it might include past and future [Dancy,J]