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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Preface to Great Instauration (Renewal)' and 'The Raft and the Pyramid'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

6602	Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon]

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

8797	The negation of all my beliefs about my current headache would be fully coherent [Sosa]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

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The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 1. Common Sense

8794	There are very few really obvious truths, and not much can be proved from them [Sosa]

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

8796	A single belief can trail two regresses, one terminating and one not [Sosa]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique

8799	If mental states are not propositional, they are logically dumb, and cannot be foundations [Sosa]

8795	Mental states cannot be foundational if they are not immune to error [Sosa]

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

8798	Vision causes and justifies beliefs; but to some extent the cause is the justification [Sosa]

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

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

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

6603	Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon]