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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'The Law of Peoples' and 'Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect'

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9 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]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / b. Double Effect

22384

A 'double effect' is a foreseen but not desired side-effect, which may be forgivable [Foot]

22385

The doctrine of double effect can excuse an outcome because it wasn't directly intended [Foot]

22386

Double effect says foreseeing you will kill someone is not the same as intending it [Foot]

22387

Without double effect, bad men can make us do evil by threatening something worse [Foot]

22388

Double effect seems to rely on a distinction between what we do and what we allow [Foot]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

21137

Rawls rejected cosmopolitanism because it doesn't respect the autonomy of 'peoples' [Rawls, by Shorten]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion

22383

Abortion is puzzling because we do and don't want the unborn child to have rights [Foot]