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All the ideas for 'Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism', 'Ignorance: a Case for Scepticism' and 'Platonism and the Spiritual Life'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism
8724 The meaning of 'know' does not change from courtroom to living room [Unger]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
8722 No one knows anything, and no one is ever justified or reasonable [Unger]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 4. Demon Scepticism
8723 An evil scientist may give you a momentary life, with totally false memories [Unger]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22693 The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E]
22694 We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E]
22695 We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E]
22692 A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
23060 The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana]