Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Remembrance of Things Past' and 'Letter to G.H. Schaller'

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6 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]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
4871 A thing is free if it acts only by the necessity of its own nature [Spinoza]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 3. Modularity of Mind
7845 When we need to do something, we depute an inner servant to remind us of it [Proust]