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All the ideas for 'The Case against Closure (and reply)', 'Prescriptivism' and 'Notes on Comments by Fardella'

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / c. Unity as conceptual

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To exist and be understood, a multitude must first be reduced to a unity [Leibniz]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

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Substances are everywhere in matter, like points in a line [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / c. Knowledge closure

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Closure says if you know P, and also know P implies Q, then you must know Q [Dretske]

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We needn't regret the implications of our regrets; regretting drinking too much implies the past is real [Dretske]

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Knowing by visual perception is not the same as knowing by implication [Dretske]

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Reasons for believing P may not transmit to its implication, Q [Dretske]

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The only way to preserve our homely truths is to abandon closure [Dretske]

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P may imply Q, but evidence for P doesn't imply evidence for Q, so closure fails [Dretske]

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We know past events by memory, but we don't know the past is real (an implication) by memory [Dretske]

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

2854	Prescriptivism says 'ought' without commitment to act is insincere, or weakly used [Hooker,B]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule

2856	Universal moral judgements imply the Golden Rule ('do as you would be done by') [Hooker,B]