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All the ideas for 'Intellectual Norms and Foundations of Mind', 'The Varieties of Necessity' and 'Law and Authority'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

9216	Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

9214	Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K]

25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality

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Only liberty, equality and sympathy can stand up to anti-social people [Kropotkin]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws

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If there are no finks or antidotes at the fundamental level, the laws can't be ceteris paribus [Burge, by Corry]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism

9215	Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K]