Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Case for Closure' and 'On the Jewish Question'

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8 ideas

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers
579 Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 2. Common Sense Certainty
19553 Commitment to 'I have a hand' only makes sense in a context where it has been doubted [Hawthorne]
13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / c. Knowledge closure
19551 How can we know the heavyweight implications of normal knowledge? Must we distort 'knowledge'? [Hawthorne]
19552 We wouldn't know the logical implications of our knowledge if small risks added up to big risks [Hawthorne]
19554 Denying closure is denying we know P when we know P and Q, which is absurd in simple cases [Hawthorne]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
578 Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism
21989 Man is dominated by money, which is the essence of his alienation [Marx]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
20519 Marxists say liberal rights are confrontational, and liberal equality is a sham [Marx, by Wolff,J]