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All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'The Human Animal' and 'Philosophical Insignificance of A Priori Knowledge'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

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All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

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Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts

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A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition

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Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body

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Maybe our persistence conditions concern bodies, rather than persons [Olson, by Hawley]

6669	For 'animalism', I exist before I became a person, and can continue after it, so I am not a person [Olson, by Lowe]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

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Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau]