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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Ignorance: a Case for Scepticism' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

6859	Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 4. Fuzzy Logic

6862	Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic

6858	Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance

6863	Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

6861	What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

6860	How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

8724	The meaning of 'know' does not change from courtroom to living room [Unger]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

8722	No one knows anything, and no one is ever justified or reasonable [Unger]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 4. Demon Scepticism

8723	An evil scientist may give you a momentary life, with totally false memories [Unger]

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]