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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Truth is not the Primary Epistemic Goal' and 'The Case for Closure'

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9 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

19566

Epistemology does not just concern knowledge; all aspects of cognitive activity are involved [Kvanvig]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 5. Aiming at Truth

19568

Making sense of things, or finding a good theory, are non-truth-related cognitive successes [Kvanvig]

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 / 1. Justification / c. Defeasibility

19567

The 'defeasibility' approach says true justified belief is knowledge if no undermining facts could be known [Kvanvig]

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 / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

19570

Reliabilism cannot assess the justification for propositions we don't believe [Kvanvig]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]