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All the ideas for 'What is so bad about Contradictions?', 'The Human Body is a sort of Machine' and 'Contextualism Contested (and reply)'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism
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
Maybe knowledge has fixed standards (high, but attainable), although people apply contextual standards [Conee]
Maybe low knowledge standards are loose talk; people will deny that it is 'really and truly' knowledge [Conee]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
A machine is best defined by its final cause, which explains the roles of the parts [Leibniz]