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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', '17: Of Superstition' and 'The Problem of Knowledge'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy

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Induction assumes some uniformity in nature, or that in some respects the future is like the past [Ayer]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique

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Knowing I exist reveals nothing at all about my nature [Ayer]

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To say 'I am not thinking' must be false, but it might have been true, so it isn't self-contradictory [Ayer]

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'I know I exist' has no counterevidence, so it may be meaningless [Ayer]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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We only discard a hypothesis after one failure if it appears likely to keep on failing [Ayer]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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Induction passes from particular facts to other particulars, or to general laws, non-deductively [Ayer]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

7399	Even without religion, there are many guides to morality [Bacon]