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All the ideas for 'Survival and Identity, with postscript', 'Modal and Anti-Luck Epistemology' and 'Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

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De re modal predicates are ambiguous [Lewis, by Rudder Baker]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

6451	Visual sense data are an inner picture show which represents the world [Blackburn]

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

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'Modal epistemology' demands a connection between the belief and facts in possible worlds [Black,T]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / b. Gettier problem

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Gettier and lottery cases seem to involve luck, meaning bad connection of beliefs to facts [Black,T]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

2866	A true belief might be based on a generally reliable process that failed on this occasion [Blackburn]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

2864	The main objection to intuitionism in ethics is that intuition is a disguise for prejudice or emotion [Blackburn]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

2865	Critics of prescriptivism observe that it is consistent to accept an ethical verdict but refuse to be bound by it [Blackburn]