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All the ideas for 'The Case against Closure (and reply)', 'A Plea for Substitutional Quantification' and 'Prcis of 'Ruling Passions''

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11 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic

9470	Modal logic is not an extensional language [Parsons,C]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

9469	Substitutional existential quantifier may explain the existence of linguistic entities [Parsons,C]

9468	On the substitutional interpretation, '(∃x) Fx' is true iff a closed term 't' makes Ft true [Parsons,C]

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

19544

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

19545

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

19546

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

19547

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

19548

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

19549

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

19550

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 / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory

11911

Some philosophers always want more from morality; for others, nature is enough [Blackburn]