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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Manuscript remains' and 'First Things First'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

21916

Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer]

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

19520

Evidentialism is not axiomatic; the evidence itself inclines us towards evidentialism [Conee]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

19521

If pure guesses were reliable, reliabilists would have to endorse them [Conee]

19522

More than actual reliability is needed, since I may mistakenly doubt what is reliable [Conee]

19523

Reliabilism is poor on reflective judgements about hypothetical cases [Conee]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

21924

As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

21915

To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]