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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification

6598	We need our beliefs to be determined by some external inhuman permanency [Peirce]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs

6944	Demonstration does not rest on first principles of reason or sensation, but on freedom from actual doubt [Peirce]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification

6948	Doubts should be satisfied by some external permanency upon which thinking has no effect [Peirce]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

577	Democritus says there is either no truth, or it is concealed from us [Democritus, by Aristotle]

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We actually know nothing, and opinions are mere flux [Democritus]

1528	We in fact know nothing, but we each restructure our reality with beliefs [Democritus]

492	It is obviously impossible to understand the reality of each thing [Democritus]

515	We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss [Democritus]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique

6945	Once doubt ceases, there is no point in continuing to argue [Peirce]