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All the ideas for 'Contextualism Contested', 'Nihilism without Self-Contradiction' and 'fragments/reports'

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11 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1813	All reasoning endlessly leads to further reasoning (Mode 12) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1811	Proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved (Mode 15) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1815	Reasoning needs arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses (Mode 14) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1812	All discussion is full of uncertainty and contradiction (Mode 11) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 7. Ad Hominem

14231

We should always apply someone's theory of meaning to their own utterances [Liggins]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification

14232

We normally formalise 'There are Fs' with singular quantification and predication, but this may be wrong [Liggins]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

14233

Nihilists needn't deny parts - they can just say that some of the xs are among the ys [Liggins]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma

8850	Agrippa's Trilemma: justification is infinite, or ends arbitrarily, or is circular [Agrippa, by Williams,M]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

12890

That standards vary with context doesn't imply different truth-conditions for judgements [Conee]

12892

Maybe there is only one context (the 'really and truly' one) for serious discussions of knowledge [Conee]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism

1814	Everything is perceived in relation to another thing (Mode 13) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]