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All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Intellectual Norms and Foundations of Mind' and 'The Problem of Knowledge'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy

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Induction assumes some uniformity in nature, or that in some respects the future is like the past [Ayer]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique

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Knowing I exist reveals nothing at all about my nature [Ayer]

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To say 'I am not thinking' must be false, but it might have been true, so it isn't self-contradictory [Ayer]

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'I know I exist' has no counterevidence, so it may be meaningless [Ayer]

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

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We only discard a hypothesis after one failure if it appears likely to keep on failing [Ayer]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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Induction passes from particular facts to other particulars, or to general laws, non-deductively [Ayer]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws

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If there are no finks or antidotes at the fundamental level, the laws can't be ceteris paribus [Burge, by Corry]