Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Lectura' and 'Letter to Frege 29.12.1899'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / G. Axiomatic Truth / 1. Axiomatic Truth

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If axioms and their implications have no contradictions, they pass my criterion of truth and existence [Hilbert]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification

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'Unity' is a particularly difficult word, because things can have hidden unity [Duns Scotus]

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]