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Ideas for 'Purifications (frags)', 'An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation' and 'Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology'

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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

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Empiricists tend to reject abstract entities, and to feel sympathy with nominalism [Carnap]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

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New linguistic claims about entities are not true or false, but just expedient, fruitful or successful [Carnap]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

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We rely on memory for empirical beliefs because they mutually support one another [Lewis,CI]

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If we doubt memories we cannot assess our doubt, or what is being doubted [Lewis,CI]