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All the ideas for 'Opus Maius (major works)', 'Course of Positive Philosophy' and 'The Emperor's New 'Knows''

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

7491	The phases of human thought are theological, then metaphysical, then positivist [Comte, by Watson]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

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How could 'S knows he has hands' not have a fixed content? [Bach]

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If contextualism is right, knowledge sentences are baffling out of their context [Bach]

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Sceptics aren't changing the meaning of 'know', but claiming knowing is tougher than we think [Bach]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences

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No one even knows the nature and properties of a fly - why it has that colour, or so many feet [Bacon,R]