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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'The Foundations of Mathematics' and 'The Common-Sense View of Reality'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

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You would cripple mathematics if you denied Excluded Middle [Hilbert]

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

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We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality [Colvin]

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Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life [Colvin]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object [Colvin]

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Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence [Colvin]

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The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things [Colvin]

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]