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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Could There Be Unicorns?' and 'Apriority as an Evaluative Notion'

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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 / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

9165	Reliability only makes a rule reasonable if we place a value on the truth produced by reliable processes [Field,H]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

9162	Believing nothing, or only logical truths, is very reliable, but we want a lot more than that [Field,H]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

9166	People vary in their epistemological standards, and none of them is 'correct' [Field,H]

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

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

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