Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Platonism and the Spiritual Life' and 'What is Mathematical Truth?'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Mathematics eliminates possibility, as being simultaneous actuality in sets [Putnam]

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

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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

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

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

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

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana]