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All the ideas for 'Truth is not the Primary Epistemic Goal', 'Logical Foundations of Probability' and 'Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

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Epistemology does not just concern knowledge; all aspects of cognitive activity are involved [Kvanvig]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 5. Aiming at Truth

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Making sense of things, or finding a good theory, are non-truth-related cognitive successes [Kvanvig]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / c. Defeasibility

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The 'defeasibility' approach says true justified belief is knowledge if no undermining facts could be known [Kvanvig]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

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Reliabilism cannot assess the justification for propositions we don't believe [Kvanvig]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / b. Aims of explanation

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Good explications are exact, fruitful, simple and similar to the explicandum [Carnap, by Salmon]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

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To universalise 'give everything to the poor' leads to absurdity [Hegel]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

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Immortality does not come at a later time, but when pure knowing Spirit fully grasps the universal [Hegel]