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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment' and 'Experience First (and reply)'

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6 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19542

It is nonsense that understanding does not involve knowledge; to understand, you must know [Dougherty/Rysiew]

19543

To grasp understanding, we should be more explicit about what needs to be known [Dougherty/Rysiew]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

3570	Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First

19541

Rather than knowledge, our epistemic aim may be mere true belief, or else understanding and wisdom [Dougherty/Rysiew]

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 / 4. Cultural relativism

1490	You would have to be very morally lazy to ignore criticisms of your own culture [Nagel]