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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Consistency and realism (with 1972 note)' and 'Philosophical Naturalism'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

221	Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
	Full Idea: The absolute good and the beautiful and all which we conceive to be absolute ideas are unknown to us.
	From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 134c)

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 5. Naturalism

3509	Externalism may be the key idea in philosophical naturalism [Papineau]
	Full Idea: Some people view an externalist approach to epistemology as the essence of philosophical naturalism.
	From: David Papineau (Philosophical Naturalism [1993], Intro)
	A reaction: I suspect philosophers avoid psychology and mental events, simply because they are elusive. Externalism is a theory about justification, and independent of naturalism as a metaphysic.