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All the ideas for 'Justified Belief as Responsible Belief', 'Difficulties of Transfinite Numbers and Types' and 'Of the Origin of Government'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence
12801 Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory [Foley]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / d. Predicativism
21558 'Predicative' norms are those which define a class [Russell]
21559 We need rules for deciding which norms are predicative (unless none of them are) [Russell]
13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / c. Disjunctivism
12800 Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification [Foley]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification
12802 We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it [Foley]
12803 Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints [Foley]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State
21096 The only purpose of government is to administer justice, which brings security [Hume]