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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Preface to Great Instauration (Renewal)' and 'First Things First'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

6602	Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

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The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

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Evidentialism is not axiomatic; the evidence itself inclines us towards evidentialism [Conee]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

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If pure guesses were reliable, reliabilists would have to endorse them [Conee]

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More than actual reliability is needed, since I may mistakenly doubt what is reliable [Conee]

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Reliabilism is poor on reflective judgements about hypothetical cases [Conee]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

6603	Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

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Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]