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All the ideas for 'The Logic of Boundaryless Concepts', 'The Case against Closure (and reply)' and 'Aesthetica'

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic

9390	Logic guides thinking, but it isn't a substitute for it [Rumfitt]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

9389	Vague membership of sets is possible if the set is defined by its concept, not its members [Rumfitt]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / c. Knowledge closure

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Closure says if you know P, and also know P implies Q, then you must know Q [Dretske]

19545

We needn't regret the implications of our regrets; regretting drinking too much implies the past is real [Dretske]

19547

Reasons for believing P may not transmit to its implication, Q [Dretske]

19546

Knowing by visual perception is not the same as knowing by implication [Dretske]

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The only way to preserve our homely truths is to abandon closure [Dretske]

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P may imply Q, but evidence for P doesn't imply evidence for Q, so closure fails [Dretske]

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We know past events by memory, but we don't know the past is real (an implication) by memory [Dretske]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics

8063	Baumgarten founded aesthetics in 1750 [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form

8118	Beauty is an order between parts, and in relation to the whole [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

8117	Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good) [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]