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All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'Against the Mathematicians' and 'works'

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4 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs

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Some things are their own criterion, such as straightness, a set of scales, or light [Sext.Empiricus]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique

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How can sceptics show there is no criterion? Weak without, contradiction with [Sext.Empiricus]

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]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

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Courage is not a virtue, but the form of every virtue at its testing point [Lewis,CS]