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All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Vagueness' and 'What is Knowledge-First Epistemology?'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

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Logical connectives have the highest precision, yet are infected by the vagueness of true and false [Russell, by Williamson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

9051	Since natural language is not precise it cannot be in the province of logic [Russell, by Keefe/Smith]

9054	Vagueness is only a characteristic of representations, such as language [Russell]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / a. Justification issues

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Don't confuse justified belief with justified believers [Dougherty/Rysiew]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification

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If knowledge is unanalysable, that makes justification more important [Dougherty/Rysiew]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

3102	Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Entailment is modelled in formal semantics as set inclusion (where 'mammals' contains 'cats') [Dougherty/Rysiew]