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All the ideas for 'Letters to Oldenburg', 'Virtue Epistemology' and 'Freedom and Action'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 1. Epistemic virtues

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Epistemic virtues: love of knowledge, courage, caution, autonomy, practical wisdom... [Kvanvig]

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If epistemic virtues are faculties or powers, that doesn't explain propositional knowledge [Kvanvig]

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The value of good means of attaining truth are swamped by the value of the truth itself [Kvanvig]

20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 1. Action Theory

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If a desire leads to a satisfactory result by an odd route, the causal theory looks wrong [Chisholm]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / c. Agent causation

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There has to be a brain event which is not caused by another event, but by the agent [Chisholm]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4867	Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

4866	God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

4868	Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]