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All the ideas for 'Internalism Exposed', 'Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature' and 'Buddhacarita'

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9 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism
6871 We can't only believe things if we are currently conscious of their justification - there are too many [Goldman]
6872 Internalism must cover Forgotten Evidence, which is no longer retrievable from memory [Goldman]
6874 Internal justification needs both mental stability and time to compute coherence [Goldman]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique
6873 Coherent justification seems to require retrieving all our beliefs simultaneously [Goldman]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
6875 Reliability involves truth, and truth is external [Goldman]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
7906 When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
17993 Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain [Vetter]
29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism
7905 The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha]
7904 The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha]