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All the ideas for 'Necessary Truth', 'The Value Problem' and 'Purple Haze'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
19735 Wisdom has a higher value than understanding, which has a higher value than knowledge [Greco]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
4577 There is no necessity higher than natural necessity, and that is just regularity [Quine]
13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification
19734 If value is practical, knowledge is no better than true opinion [Greco]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 10. Anti External Justification
19733 Externalist theories don't explain why knowledge has value [Greco]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap
7876 Even if we identify pain with neural events, we can't explain why those neurons cause that feeling [Levine, by Papineau]
7877 Only phenomenal states have an explanatory gap; water is fully explained by H2O [Levine, by Papineau]
7878 Materialism won't explain phenomenal properties, because the latter aren't seen in causal roles [Papineau on Levine]