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All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Internalism and Externalism: a History' and 'works'

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7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

15941

For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / h. Reals from Cauchy

18247

Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification

4254	Externalist accounts of knowledge do not require the traditional sort of justification [Kornblith]