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Ideas for Anaxarchus, Friedrich Nietzsche and Stewart Cohen

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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification
20122 We have no organ for knowledge or truth; we only 'know' what is useful to the human herd [Nietzsche]
20140 We shouldn't object to a false judgement, if it enhances and preserves life [Nietzsche]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique
23206 Schematic minds think thoughts are truer if they slot into a scheme [Nietzsche]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism
19558 Our own intuitions about whether we know tend to vacillate [Cohen,S]
19561 We shouldn't jump too quickly to a contextualist account of claims to know [Cohen,S]
19563 The context sensitivity of knowledge derives from its justification [Cohen,S]
19560 Contextualism is good because it allows knowledge, but bad because 'knowing' is less valued [Cohen,S]
12893 Contextualism says sceptical arguments are true, relative to their strict context [Cohen,S]
12896 Knowledge is context-sensitive, because justification is [Cohen,S]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism
12894 There aren't invariant high standards for knowledge, because even those can be raised [Cohen,S]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
14872 Our knowledge is illogical, because it rests on false identities between things [Nietzsche]
14879 The most extreme scepticism is when you even give up logic [Nietzsche]
3061 Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
19559 Contextualists slightly concede scepticism, but only in extremely strict contexts [Cohen,S]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism
4423 We assume causes, geometry, motion, bodies etc to live, but they haven't been proved [Nietzsche]
24124 We now have innumerable perspectives to draw on [Nietzsche]
23209 Each of our personal drives has its own perspective [Nietzsche]
4420 There is only 'perspective' seeing and knowing, and so the best objectivity is multiple points of view [Nietzsche]
4486 The extreme view is there are only perspectives, no true beliefs, because there is no true world [Nietzsche]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism
6579 Nietzsche's perspectivism says our worldview depends on our personality [Nietzsche, by Fogelin]
24083 It would be absurd to say we are only permitted our own single perspective [Nietzsche]
7149 Comprehending everything is impossible, because it abolishes perspectives [Nietzsche]
7169 Is the perspectival part of the essence, or just a relation between beings? [Nietzsche]
7182 'Perspectivism': the world has no meaning, but various interpretations give it countless meanings [Nietzsche]
7183 'Subjectivity' is an interpretation, since subjects (and interpreters) are fictions [Nietzsche]
7133 It is tempting to think many eyes means many truths - so not truth [Nietzsche]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
2877 Morality becomes a problem when we compare many moralities [Nietzsche]