Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Fear and Trembling' and 'Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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Surely the past phases of a thing are not parts of the thing? [Broad]

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]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality

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Either Abraham rises higher than universal ethics, or he is a mere murderer [Kierkegaard]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality

7577	Abraham was willing to suspend ethics, for a higher idea [Kierkegaard]