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All the ideas for 'On Certainty', 'Bayesianism' and 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19261

Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism

3597	Foundations need not precede other beliefs [Wittgenstein]

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

3596	Total doubt can't even get started [Wittgenstein, by Williams,M]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

2799	Bayes' theorem explains why very surprising predictions have a higher value as evidence [Horwich]

2798	Probability of H, given evidence E, is prob(H) x prob(E given H) / prob(E) [Horwich]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings

4721	If you are not certain of any fact, you cannot be certain of the meaning of your words either [Wittgenstein]