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All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Letters to Voetius' and 'Reflections on my Critics'

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8 ideas

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth

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'Truth' may only apply within a theory [Kuhn]

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]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

6809	Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability

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In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

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Atheism is an atrocious and intolerable crime in any country [Descartes]