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All the ideas for 'Natural Science (lost)', 'Against the Ethicists (one book)' and 'Fallibilism'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason
22752 Reasoning is impossible without a preconception [Sext.Empiricus]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
527 Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism
19701 Fallibilism is consistent with dogmatism or scepticism, and is not alternative to them [Dougherty]
19700 It is best to see the fallibility in the reasons, rather than in the agents or the knowledge [Dougherty]
19702 We can't normally say that we know something 'but it might be false' [Dougherty]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
22754 Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it [Sext.Empiricus]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
22755 Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone [Sext.Empiricus]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
22756 If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it [Sext.Empiricus]