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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'Substance' and 'fragments/reports'

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

1813	All reasoning endlessly leads to further reasoning (Mode 12) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1811	Proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved (Mode 15) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1815	Reasoning needs arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses (Mode 14) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1812	All discussion is full of uncertainty and contradiction (Mode 11) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

15391

A substance is, roughly, a basic being or subject at the foundation of reality [Robb]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

15392

If an object survives the loss of a part, complex objects can have autonomy over their parts [Robb]

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 / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma

8850	Agrippa's Trilemma: justification is infinite, or ends arbitrarily, or is circular [Agrippa, 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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism

1814	Everything is perceived in relation to another thing (Mode 13) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]