Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Epistemic Operators' and 'The Value Problem'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

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Wisdom has a higher value than understanding, which has a higher value than knowledge [Greco]

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 / b. Need for justification

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If value is practical, knowledge is no better than true opinion [Greco]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / c. Knowledge closure

6445	You have knowledge if you can rule out all the relevant alternatives to what you believe [Dretske, by DeRose]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 10. Anti External Justification

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Externalist theories don't explain why knowledge has value [Greco]

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]