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All the ideas for 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong', 'Necessary Truth' and 'No Understanding without Explanation'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

4577	There is no necessity higher than natural necessity, and that is just regularity [Quine]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

14365

Scientific understanding is always the grasping of a correct explanation [Strevens]

14368

We may 'understand that' the cat is on the mat, but not at all 'understand why' it is there [Strevens]

14369

Understanding is a precondition, comes in degrees, is active, and holistic - unlike explanation [Strevens]

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]