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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intro to 'Philosophical Essays'' and 'Elusive Knowledge'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

9786	Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

9784	A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

12899

The timid student has knowledge without belief, lacking confidence in their correct answer [Lewis]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

12897

To say S knows P, but cannot eliminate not-P, sounds like a contradiction [Lewis]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification

12898

Justification is neither sufficient nor necessary for knowledge [Lewis]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

12895

Knowing is context-sensitive because the domain of quantification varies [Lewis, by Cohen,S]

19562

We have knowledge if alternatives are eliminated, but appropriate alternatives depend on context [Lewis, by Cohen,S]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

3061	Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]