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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow' and 'Virtue Epistemology'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 1. Epistemic virtues

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Epistemic virtues: love of knowledge, courage, caution, autonomy, practical wisdom... [Kvanvig]

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If epistemic virtues are faculties or powers, that doesn't explain propositional knowledge [Kvanvig]

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The value of good means of attaining truth are swamped by the value of the truth itself [Kvanvig]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]