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All the ideas for 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong', 'Geometrical Method and Metaphysics' and 'Defeasibility Theory'

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

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Indefeasibility does not imply infallibility [Grundmann]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / c. Defeasibility

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Can a defeater itself be defeated? [Grundmann]

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Simple reliabilism can't cope with defeaters of reliably produced beliefs [Grundmann]

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You can 'rebut' previous beliefs, 'undercut' the power of evidence, or 'reason-defeat' the truth [Grundmann]

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Defeasibility theory needs to exclude defeaters which are true but misleading [Grundmann]

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Knowledge requires that there are no facts which would defeat its justification [Grundmann]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs

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'Moderate' foundationalism has basic justification which is defeasible [Grundmann]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

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Minds are best explained by their ends, and bodies by efficient causes [Leibniz]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]