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Ideas for Cardinal/Hayward/Jones, Hecato and Baruch de Spinoza

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge
5640 Spinoza's three levels of knowledge are perception/imagination, then principles, then intuitions [Spinoza, by Scruton]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
17211 Understanding is the sole aim of reason, and the only profit for the mind [Spinoza]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / e. Belief holism
21801 Unlike Descartes' atomism, Spinoza held a holistic view of belief [Spinoza, by Schmid]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty
21863 You only know you are certain of something when you actually are certain of it [Spinoza]
17199 A man who assents without doubt to a falsehood is not certain, but lacks a cause to make him waver [Spinoza]
17193 True ideas intrinsically involve the highest degree of certainty [Spinoza]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique
5638 'I think' is useless, because it is contingent, and limited to the first person [Spinoza, by Scruton]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
7301 The phenomenalist says that to be is to be perceivable [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]
7302 Linguistic phenomenalism says we can eliminate talk of physical objects [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]
7303 If we lack enough sense-data, are we to say that parts of reality are 'indeterminate'? [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]