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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'True Believers' and 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics'

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6 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

3570	Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 4. Tracking the Facts

2748	A true belief isn't knowledge if it would be believed even if false. It should 'track the truth' [Nozick, by Dancy,J]

18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content

23803

States have content if we can predict them well by assuming intentionality [Dennett, by Schulte]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

21731

Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]

21730

A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model

21732

The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]