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All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'works' and 'The Conquest of Happiness'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 4. Linguistic Structuralism
23123 Basic to human culture are binary oppositions, such as eating raw or cooked [Levi-Strauss, by Green,TH]
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]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
20180 A happy and joyous life must largely be a quiet life [Russell]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 4. Boredom
20176 Boredom is an increasingly strong motivating power [Russell]
20177 Boredom always involves not being fully occupied [Russell]
20178 Life is now more interesting, but boredom is more frightening [Russell]
20179 Happiness involves enduring boredom, and the young should be taught this [Russell]