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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'First Things First' and 'Second Philosophy'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

20768

Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic

10594

Henkin semantics is more plausible for plural logic than for second-order logic [Maddy]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

19520

Evidentialism is not axiomatic; the evidence itself inclines us towards evidentialism [Conee]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

19522

More than actual reliability is needed, since I may mistakenly doubt what is reliable [Conee]

19521

If pure guesses were reliable, reliabilists would have to endorse them [Conee]

19523

Reliabilism is poor on reflective judgements about hypothetical cases [Conee]

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

3049	The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

3549	Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas]