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All the ideas for 'Contextualism Contested (and reply)', 'Truth and Probability' and 'Letters to William Molyneux'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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Things have real essences, but we categorise them according to the ideas we receive [Locke]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

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'If' is the same as 'given that', so the degrees of belief should conform to probability theory [Ramsey, by Ramsey]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

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People begin to doubt whether they 'know' when the answer becomes more significant [Conee]

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

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Maybe low knowledge standards are loose talk; people will deny that it is 'really and truly' knowledge [Conee]

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Maybe knowledge has fixed standards (high, but attainable), although people apply contextual standards [Conee]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

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Ramsey gave axioms for an uncertain agent to decide their preferences [Ramsey, by Davidson]