Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Capital Vol. 1' and 'On Providence'

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9 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]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
13550 To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / a. External goods
13549 Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism
21995 Must production determine superstructure, or could it be the other way round? [Singer on Marx]
20577 Even decently paid workers still have their produce bought with money stolen from them [Marx]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces
13548 The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca]