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All the ideas for 'reports', 'A Priori Knowledge' and 'Commentary on Euclid's 'Elements''

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9 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

20475

Maybe modal sentences cannot be true or false [Casullo]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary

20476

If the necessary is a priori, so is the contingent, because the same evidence is involved [Casullo]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

20471

Epistemic a priori conditions concern either the source, defeasibility or strength [Casullo]

20477

The main claim of defenders of the a priori is that some justifications are non-experiential [Casullo]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

20472

Analysis of the a priori by necessity or analyticity addresses the proposition, not the justification [Casullo]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / c. Defeasibility

20474

'Overriding' defeaters rule it out, and 'undermining' defeaters weaken in [Casullo]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

13165

Geometrical proofs do not show causes, as when we prove a triangle contains two right angles [Proclus]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9569	The origin of geometry started in sensation, then moved to calculation, and then to reason [Proclus]