Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'works' and 'Truth'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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True sentences says the appropriate descriptive thing on the appropriate demonstrative occasion [Austin,JL]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique

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Correspondence theorists shouldn't think that a country has just one accurate map [Austin,JL]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

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Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

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]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

7563	The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley]