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All the ideas for 'No Understanding without Explanation', 'Some Puzzles of Ground' and 'Treatise 4: The Moral Sense'

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11 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

6253	Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 3. Many-Valued Logic

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Strong Kleene disjunction just needs one true disjunct; Weak needs the other to have some value [Fine,K]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

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Formal grounding needs transitivity of grounding, no self-grounding, and the existence of both parties [Fine,K]

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

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Scientific understanding is always the grasping of a correct explanation [Strevens]

14368

We may 'understand that' the cat is on the mat, but not at all 'understand why' it is there [Strevens]

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Understanding is a precondition, comes in degrees, is active, and holistic - unlike explanation [Strevens]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

6256	Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

6252	Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

6257	You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality

6254	We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson]

6255	Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson]