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All the ideas for 'works (fragments)', 'Reference and Reflexivity' and 'Understanding and Essence'

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15 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

19259

If 2-D conceivability can a priori show possibilities, this is a defence of conceptual analysis [Vaidya]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1815	Reasoning needs arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses (Mode 14) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1812	All discussion is full of uncertainty and contradiction (Mode 11) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1813	All reasoning endlessly leads to further reasoning (Mode 12) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1811	Proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved (Mode 15) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / c. Essentials are necessary

19262

Essential properties are necessary, but necessary properties may not be essential [Vaidya]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible

19267

Define conceivable; how reliable is it; does inconceivability help; and what type of possibility results? [Vaidya]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / c. Possible but inconceivable

19268

Inconceivability (implying impossibility) may be failure to conceive, or incoherence [Vaidya]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19265

Can you possess objective understanding without realising it? [Vaidya]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma

8850	Agrippa's Trilemma: justification is infinite, or ends arbitrarily, or is circular [Agrippa, by Williams,M]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / b. Gettier problem

19260

Gettier deductive justifications split the justification from the truthmaker [Vaidya]

19266

In a disjunctive case, the justification comes from one side, and the truth from the other [Vaidya]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism

1814	Everything is perceived in relation to another thing (Mode 13) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought

16391

Indexical thoughts are about themselves, and ascribe properties to themselves [Perry, by Recanati]

18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content

19264

Aboutness is always intended, and cannot be accidental [Vaidya]