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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action' and 'Pragmatism and Objective Truth'

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8 ideas

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

19086

Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / b. Greek arithmetic

19093

Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth]

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]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

19091

Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts

19088

For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

15677

Moral right is linked to validity and truth, so morality is a matter of knowledge, not an expression of values [Habermas, by Finlayson]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

15671

Move from individual willing of a general law, to willing norms agreed with other people [Habermas]