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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Virtue Epistemology' and 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong'

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

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

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 1. Epistemic virtues

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Epistemic virtues: love of knowledge, courage, caution, autonomy, practical wisdom... [Kvanvig]

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If epistemic virtues are faculties or powers, that doesn't explain propositional knowledge [Kvanvig]

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The value of good means of attaining truth are swamped by the value of the truth itself [Kvanvig]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]

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]