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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Manuscript remains' and 'What is Knowledge-First Epistemology?'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

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Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / a. Justification issues

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Don't confuse justified belief with justified believers [Dougherty/Rysiew]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification

19539

If knowledge is unanalysable, that makes justification more important [Dougherty/Rysiew]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Entailment is modelled in formal semantics as set inclusion (where 'mammals' contains 'cats') [Dougherty/Rysiew]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

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As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

21915

To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer]