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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Essay on Probability', 'Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights' and 'Religion and Respect'

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5 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

7458	The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

3441	If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / h. Respect

23223

The word 'respect' ranges from mere non-interference to the highest levels of reverence [Blackburn]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

20977

Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

21003

Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham]