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All the ideas for 'works', 'Euthydemus' and 'The Inference to the Best Explanation'

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

304	Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

16120

Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

303	Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / a. Best explanation

17060

Best Explanation is the core notion of epistemology [Harman, by Smart]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory

302	What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / e. Good as knowledge

301	Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean

305	Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

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Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6610	I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian]