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All the ideas for 'Justified Belief as Responsible Belief', 'Reflections on my Critics' and 'talk'

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

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

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1403	A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG]

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth

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'Truth' may only apply within a theory [Kuhn]

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]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

6809	Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability

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In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn]