Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Letters to Leibniz' and 'On Probability and Induction'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity

22361

Contextual values are acceptable in research, but not in its final evaluation [Reichenbach, by Reiss/Sprenger]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

16519

No one can conceive of a possible substance, apart from those which God has created [Arnauld]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 2. Common Sense Certainty

19553

Commitment to 'I have a hand' only makes sense in a context where it has been doubted [Hawthorne]

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

19551

How can we know the heavyweight implications of normal knowledge? Must we distort 'knowledge'? [Hawthorne]

19552

We wouldn't know the logical implications of our knowledge if small risks added up to big risks [Hawthorne]

19554

Denying closure is denying we know P when we know P and Q, which is absurd in simple cases [Hawthorne]