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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom' and 'Virtues of the Mind'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / b. Gettier problem
20225 For internalists Gettier situations are where internally it is fine, but there is an external mishap [Zagzebski]
20226 Gettier problems are always possible if justification and truth are not closely linked [Zagzebski]
20228 We avoid the Gettier problem if the support for the belief entails its truth [Zagzebski]
20227 Gettier cases arise when good luck cancels out bad luck [Zagzebski]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 1. Epistemic virtues
20194 Intellectual virtues are forms of moral virtue [Zagzebski]
20206 Intellectual and moral prejudice are the same vice (and there are other examples) [Zagzebski]
20208 We can name at least thirteen intellectual vices [Zagzebski]
20215 A justified belief emulates the understanding and beliefs of an intellectually virtuous person [Zagzebski]
20210 A reliable process is no use without the virtues to make use of them [Zagzebski]
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 / b. Anti-reliabilism
20187 Epistemic perfection for reliabilism is a truth-producing machine [Zagzebski]
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 / 1. Relativism
7424 Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism
584 If truth is relative it is relational, and concerns appearances relative to a situation [Aristotle]
585 If relativism is individual, how can something look sweet and not taste it, or look different to our two eyes? [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]