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All the ideas for '72: Against Stoics on common Conceptions', 'Necessary Truth' and 'The Case for Closure'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

4577	There is no necessity higher than natural necessity, and that is just regularity [Quine]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 2. Common Sense Certainty

19553

Commitment to 'I have a hand' only makes sense in a context where it has been doubted [Hawthorne]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / c. Knowledge closure

19551

How can we know the heavyweight implications of normal knowledge? Must we distort 'knowledge'? [Hawthorne]

19552

We wouldn't know the logical implications of our knowledge if small risks added up to big risks [Hawthorne]

19554

Denying closure is denying we know P when we know P and Q, which is absurd in simple cases [Hawthorne]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

5974	People report seeing through rocks, or over the horizon, or impossibly small works [Plutarch]