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All the ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'The Gettier Problem' and 'The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / j. Axiom of Choice IX

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Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa]

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

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Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

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The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie]

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German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie]

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Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic

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The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

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Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa]

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

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A Gettier case is a belief which is true, and its fallible justification involves some luck [Hetherington]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

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Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time

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Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa]