Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Entity and Identity' and 'First Things First'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / b. Need for abstracta

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We need a logical use of 'object' as predicate-worthy, and an 'ontological' use [Strawson,P]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

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Evidentialism is not axiomatic; the evidence itself inclines us towards evidentialism [Conee]

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

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If pure guesses were reliable, reliabilists would have to endorse them [Conee]

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More than actual reliability is needed, since I may mistakenly doubt what is reliable [Conee]

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Reliabilism is poor on reflective judgements about hypothetical cases [Conee]

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

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