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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Apriority as an Evaluative Notion' and 'Universal Arithmetick'

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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

9161	Maybe reasonableness requires circular justifications - that is one coherentist view [Field,H]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / b. Greek arithmetic

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A number is not a multitude, but a unified ratio between quantities [Newton]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 6. A Priori from Reason

9160	Lots of propositions are default reasonable, but the a priori ones are empirically indefeasible [Field,H]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 7. A Priori from Convention

9164	We treat basic rules as if they were indefeasible and a priori, with no interest in counter-evidence [Field,H]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

9165	Reliability only makes a rule reasonable if we place a value on the truth produced by reliable processes [Field,H]

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

9162	Believing nothing, or only logical truths, is very reliable, but we want a lot more than that [Field,H]

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

9166	People vary in their epistemological standards, and none of them is 'correct' [Field,H]

14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction

9163	If we only use induction to assess induction, it is empirically indefeasible, and hence a priori [Field,H]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5996	Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA]