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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Thomasius' and 'Non-foundationalist epistemology'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

8616	How can multiple statements, none of which is tenable, conjoin to yield a tenable conclusion? [Elgin]

8617	Statements that are consistent, cotenable and supportive are roughly true [Elgin]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

13432

The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification

8618	Coherence is a justification if truth is its best explanation (not skill in creating fiction) [Elgin]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

12696

Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

542	Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]