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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Lecture on Applicability of Mathematics' and 'Contextualism Contested'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

8732	It is spooky the way mathematics anticipates physics [Weinberg]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

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That standards vary with context doesn't imply different truth-conditions for judgements [Conee]

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Maybe there is only one context (the 'really and truly' one) for serious discussions of knowledge [Conee]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

1554	Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

1555	People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

535	The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus]

1543	He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus]