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All the ideas for 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong', 'talk' and 'What is Knowledge-First Epistemology?'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

6900	A prior understanding of beauty is needed to assert that the Form of the Beautiful is beautiful [Westaway]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

6956	At what point does an object become 'whole'? [Westaway]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / a. Justification issues

19540

Don't confuse justified belief with justified believers [Dougherty/Rysiew]

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

19539

If knowledge is unanalysable, that makes justification more important [Dougherty/Rysiew]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room

7335	The Chinese Room should be able to ask itself questions in Mandarin [Westaway]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

19538

Entailment is modelled in formal semantics as set inclusion (where 'mammals' contains 'cats') [Dougherty/Rysiew]

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]