Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'Spreading the Word' and 'Elements of Law and Justice'

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4 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

19284

Asserting a necessity just expresses our inability to imagine it is false [Blackburn]

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 / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

19387

Hypotheses come from induction, which is comparison of experiences [Leibniz]