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All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Zettel' and 'There is no a Priori'

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7 ideas

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

2626	A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

6569	'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

9354	Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts

9353	We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt]

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

9356	The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification

3790	Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein]

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

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