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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Justified Belief as Responsible Belief' and 'On the Concept of Number'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

291	Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

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Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory [Foley]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Hilbert said (to block paradoxes) that mathematical existence is entailed by consistency [Hilbert, by Potter]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / c. Disjunctivism

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Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification [Foley]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification

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We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it [Foley]

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Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints [Foley]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

293	Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]