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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Philosophical Explanations' and 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World'

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5 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

3570	Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 4. Tracking the Facts

2748	A true belief isn't knowledge if it would be believed even if false. It should 'track the truth' [Nozick, by Dancy,J]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

17093

Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon]

17492

Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus]