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All the ideas for 'Epistemology', 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Many, but almost one'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

8658	For there was never yet philosopher/ That could endure the toothache patiently [Shakespeare]

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

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Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

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If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis]

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

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We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

7301	The phenomenalist says that to be is to be perceivable [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

7302	Linguistic phenomenalism says we can eliminate talk of physical objects [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

7303	If we lack enough sense-data, are we to say that parts of reality are 'indeterminate'? [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities

7299	Primary qualities can be described mathematically, unlike secondary qualities [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

7300	An object cannot remain an object without its primary qualities [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique

7297	My justifications might be very coherent, but totally unconnected to the world [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

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Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis]