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All the ideas for 'poems', 'Approaches to Intentionality' and 'Elusive Knowledge'

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12 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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The timid student has knowledge without belief, lacking confidence in their correct answer [Lewis]

2986	Belief is the most important propositional attitude [Lyons]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

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To say S knows P, but cannot eliminate not-P, sounds like a contradiction [Lewis]

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

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Justification is neither sufficient nor necessary for knowledge [Lewis]

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

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Knowing is context-sensitive because the domain of quantification varies [Lewis, by Cohen,S]

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We have knowledge if alternatives are eliminated, but appropriate alternatives depend on context [Lewis, by Cohen,S]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories

2978	Consciousness no longer seems essential to intentionality [Lyons]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 4. Connectionism

2984	Perceptions could give us information without symbolic representation [Lyons]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes

2979	Propositional attitudes require representation [Lyons]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology

2987	Folk psychology works badly for alien cultures [Lyons]

18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content

2977	All thinking has content [Lyons]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]