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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What is Knowledge-First Epistemology?' and 'talk'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

3013	Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / a. Justification issues

19540

Don't confuse justified belief with justified believers [Dougherty/Rysiew]

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

19539

If knowledge is unanalysable, that makes justification more important [Dougherty/Rysiew]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy

5210	We could know what a lion thinks by mapping both its brain patterns and its experiences [Douglas,A]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Entailment is modelled in formal semantics as set inclusion (where 'mammals' contains 'cats') [Dougherty/Rysiew]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1494	Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

1713	Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

1742	Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]