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

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10 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]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

20475

Maybe modal sentences cannot be true or false [Casullo]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary

20476

If the necessary is a priori, so is the contingent, because the same evidence is involved [Casullo]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

20471

Epistemic a priori conditions concern either the source, defeasibility or strength [Casullo]

20477

The main claim of defenders of the a priori is that some justifications are non-experiential [Casullo]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

20472

Analysis of the a priori by necessity or analyticity addresses the proposition, not the justification [Casullo]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / c. Defeasibility

20474

'Overriding' defeaters rule it out, and 'undermining' defeaters weaken in [Casullo]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]