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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Elusive Knowledge' and 'Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''

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7 ideas

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 1. Aristotelian Logic

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Aristotelian logic cannot express 'Everyone loves someone' [White,RM]

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

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

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]

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]