Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'An Essay on Free Will' and 'Of Human Freedom'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

22076

Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling]

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]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

22074

We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling]

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 / 2. Sources of Free Will

22075

Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism

6981	Determinism clashes with free will, as the past determines action, and is beyond our control [Inwagen, by Jackson]