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All the ideas for 'Justified Belief as Responsible Belief', 'Realism and Anti-Realism' and 'Mathematical Physics'

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6 ideas

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

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

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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Metaphysical realists are committed to all unambiguous statements being true or not true [Dummett]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / c. Disjunctivism

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Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification [Foley]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification

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We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it [Foley]

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Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints [Foley]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring

9567	Maths deals with quantities of physical significance, ignoring irrelevant features [Geroch]