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All the ideas for 'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'Fallibilism' and 'Contributions of Philosophy (On Appropriation)'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

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When philosophy makes itself intelligible, it commits suicide [Heidegger]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

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Fallibilism is consistent with dogmatism or scepticism, and is not alternative to them [Dougherty]

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It is best to see the fallibility in the reasons, rather than in the agents or the knowledge [Dougherty]

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We can't normally say that we know something 'but it might be false' [Dougherty]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]