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All the ideas for 'What is so bad about Contradictions?', 'Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge' and 'The Structure of Science'

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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9123	Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 4. Paradoxes in Logic / e. The Lottery paradox

4261	The Lottery Paradox says each ticket is likely to lose, so there probably won't be a winner [Bonjour, by PG]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

3425	Reduction has been defined as deriving one theory from another by logic and maths [Nagel,E, by Kim]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism

4255	Externalist theories of knowledge are one species of foundationalism [Bonjour]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs

4257	The big problem for foundationalism is to explain how basic beliefs are possible [Bonjour]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / e. Pro-foundations

4256	The main argument for foundationalism is that all other theories involve a regress leading to scepticism [Bonjour]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification

4258	Extreme externalism says no more justification is required than the truth of the belief [Bonjour]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

4259	External reliability is not enough, if the internal state of the believer is known to be irrational [Bonjour]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 10. Anti External Justification

4260	Even if there is no obvious irrationality, it may be irrational to base knowledge entirely on external criteria [Bonjour]