Lexicon of Arguments

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II 225
Demonstratives / possible worlds / knowledge / belief / Nozick: "given that" compels us to keep things constant and therefore to consider more distant worlds - also demonstratives can fix things.
>Index words, >Indexicality, >Possible worlds, >Identity across worlds, >Centered worlds.
II 226
E.g. "Do I know that this e- thing (a pen with familiar scratch) is h? "here e is kept fixed (constant) and the answer seems to provoke the skeptic that h is not known.
Solution: in reality it is about "non-(e and non-h)" which is not known.
>Knowledge, >Certainty, >Recognition.
Skepticism: if e is the only evidence and does not imply (entail) h, how do we know that h, given e?
>Evidence, >Hypotheses, >Entailment.
Narrower skepticism: goes even further: e falls into a class of statements (about behavior), and h (the conclusion) to another (via mental states).
>Skepticism, >Mental states, >Index words, >Indexicality,
>Behavior, >Conclusion.

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