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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'There is no a Priori' and 'Elusive Knowledge'

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9 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

12899

The timid student has knowledge without belief, lacking confidence in their correct answer [Lewis]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

12897

To say S knows P, but cannot eliminate not-P, sounds like a contradiction [Lewis]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

9354	Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts

9353	We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

9356	The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification

12898

Justification is neither sufficient nor necessary for knowledge [Lewis]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

12895

Knowing is context-sensitive because the domain of quantification varies [Lewis, by Cohen,S]

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We have knowledge if alternatives are eliminated, but appropriate alternatives depend on context [Lewis, by Cohen,S]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

5994	Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]