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Ideas for 'A Discourse on Method', 'Knowledge and its Limits' and 'Facts and Propositions'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

3605	We can believe a thing without knowing we believe it [Descartes]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

4760	Belief aims at knowledge (rather than truth), and mere believing is a kind of botched knowing [Williamson]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First

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Don't analyse knowledge; use knowledge to analyse other concepts in epistemology [Williamson, by DeRose]

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

1583	In morals Descartes accepts the conventional, but rejects it in epistemology [Roochnik on Descartes]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito

3607	In thinking everything else false, my own existence remains totally certain [Descartes]