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All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Letters to Leibniz 1' and 'Fear and Trembling'

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7 ideas

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]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
17009 I won't object if someone shows that gravity consistently arises from the action of matter [Newton]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality
16006 Either Abraham rises higher than universal ethics, or he is a mere murderer [Kierkegaard]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality
7577 Abraham was willing to suspend ethics, for a higher idea [Kierkegaard]