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All the ideas for 'Justified Belief as Responsible Belief', 'Primary Truths' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason

6851	We overvalue whether arguments are valid, and undervalue whether they are interesting [Monk]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

12801

Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory [Foley]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

9155	An a priori proof is independent of experience [Leibniz]

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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics

6850	Wittgenstein pared his life down in his search for decency [Monk]