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All the ideas for 'works', 'The Case against Closure (and reply)' and 'Community'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / c. Knowledge closure
19544 Closure says if you know P, and also know P implies Q, then you must know Q [Dretske]
19545 We needn't regret the implications of our regrets; regretting drinking too much implies the past is real [Dretske]
19547 Reasons for believing P may not transmit to its implication, Q [Dretske]
19546 Knowing by visual perception is not the same as knowing by implication [Dretske]
19548 The only way to preserve our homely truths is to abandon closure [Dretske]
19549 P may imply Q, but evidence for P doesn't imply evidence for Q, so closure fails [Dretske]
19550 We know past events by memory, but we don't know the past is real (an implication) by memory [Dretske]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind
3488 Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
5689 Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions
23950 Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
22344 Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / a. Sovereignty
23418 Liberal state legitimacy is based on a belief in justice, not in some conception of the good life [Kymlicka]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture
23414 Liberals say state intervention in culture restricts people's autonomy [Kymlicka]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / e. Liberal community
23410 Modern liberals see a community as simply a society which respects freedom and equality [Kymlicka]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism
23409 Community can focus on class or citizenship or ethnicity or culture [Kymlicka]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / b. Against communitarianism
23419 Communitarianism struggles with excluded marginalised groups [Kymlicka]
23413 Feminism has shown that social roles are far from fixed (as communitarians tend to see them) [Kymlicka]
23415 Participation aids the quest for the good life, but why should that be a state activity? [Kymlicka]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
23411 Communitarians see justice as primarily a community matter, rather than a principle [Kymlicka]
23412 Justice resolves conflicts, but may also provoke them [Kymlicka]