Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'talk', 'Elusive Knowledge' and 'fragments/reports'

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9 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

12899

The timid student has knowledge without belief, lacking confidence in their correct answer [Lewis]

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

12897

To say S knows P, but cannot eliminate not-P, sounds like a contradiction [Lewis]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification

12898

Justification is neither sufficient nor necessary for knowledge [Lewis]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

12895

Knowing is context-sensitive because the domain of quantification varies [Lewis, by Cohen,S]

19562

We have knowledge if alternatives are eliminated, but appropriate alternatives depend on context [Lewis, by Cohen,S]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature

6000	The goal is rationality in the selection of things according to nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

5999	The good is what is perfect by nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice

6001	Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]