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All the ideas for 'The Gettier Problem', 'Neutral Relations' and 'The Character of Physical Law'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
15970 People generalise because it is easier to understand, and that is mistaken for deep philosophy [Feynman]
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
14217 The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]
14216 The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]
14218 A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]
14219 Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]
14220 Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]
13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / b. Gettier problem
19699 A Gettier case is a belief which is true, and its fallible justification involves some luck [Hetherington]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
9410 Physical Laws are rhythms and patterns in nature, revealed by analysis [Feynman]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics
18530 Nobody understands quantum mechanics [Feynman]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space
17707 We should regard space as made up of many tiny pieces [Feynman, by Mares]