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All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'The Iliad or the Poem of Force' and 'On the Source of Necessity'

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9 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / g. System S4

15102

S4 says there must be some necessary truths (the actual ones, of which there is at least one) [Cameron]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

15103

Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron]

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]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 1. Social Power

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Force is what turns man into a thing, and ultimately into a corpse [Weil]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice

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Only people who understand force, and don't respect it, are capable of justice [Weil]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

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The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron]