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All the ideas for 'Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa', 'Herculaneum Papyrus' and 'The Case for Closure'

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7 ideas

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]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

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The properties of an electron can't be explained just as 'clustering' [Chakravartty on Boyd]

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Properties cluster together, either because of intrinsic relations, or because of an underlying process [Boyd, by Chakravartty]