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All the ideas for 'The Origin of the Work of Art', 'Introduction to 'Evidentialism'' and 'unfinished dialogue'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

15585	Later Heidegger sees philosophy as more like poetry than like science [Heidegger, by Polt]
	Full Idea: In his later work Heidegger came to view philosophy as closer to poetry than to science.
	From: report of Martin Heidegger (The Origin of the Work of Art [1935], p.178) by Richard Polt - Heidegger: an introduction 5 'Signs'

3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth

4298	All items of possible human knowledge are interconnected, and can be reached by inference [Descartes]
	Full Idea: All the items of knowledge that lie within the reach of the human mind are linked together with a marvellous bond, and can be derived from each other by necessary inferences.
	From: René Descartes (unfinished dialogue [1649])
	A reaction: It does seem that God ought to be able to infer all empirical facts from first principles. But how do you get started?

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

19518	Evidentialism says justifications supervene on the available evidence [Conee/Feldman]
	Full Idea: Fundamentally Evidentialism is a supervenience thesis, according to which facts about whether or not a person is justified in believing a proposition supervene on facts describing the evidence the person has.
	From: E Conee / R Feldman (Introduction to 'Evidentialism' [2004], p.1)
	A reaction: If facts 'describe', does that make them linguistic? That's not how I use 'facts'. A statement of a fact is not the same as the fact. An ugly fact can be beautifully expressed. I am, however, in favour of evidence.

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

19519	Rational decisions are either taken to be based on evidence, or to be explained causally [Conee/Feldman]
	Full Idea: In decision theory, there is a view according to which the rational basis for all decisions is evidential. This kind of decision theory is typically contrasted with causal decision theory.
	From: E Conee / R Feldman (Introduction to 'Evidentialism' [2004], p.3)
	A reaction: Your Kantian presumably likes rational reflection on evidence, and your modern reductive scientist prefers causality (which doesn't really sound very rational).