Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Philosophical Fragments', 'lectures' and 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

16007

I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

16013

Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]

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

19261

Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / b. Direct realism

8417	Direct realism is false, because defeasibility questions are essential to perceptual knowledge [Galloway]