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All the ideas for 'Notes on John Wilkins', 'Zettel' and 'Justified Belief as Responsible Belief'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

2626	A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

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Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory [Foley]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

6569	'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

12694

Essence is the distinct thinkability of anything [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / c. Disjunctivism

12800

Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification [Foley]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification

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We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it [Foley]

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Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints [Foley]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification

3790	Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein]