Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Confucius, Gottfried Leibniz and G.E.M. Anscombe
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
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Descartes needs to demonstrate how other people can attain his clear and distinct conceptions [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
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Arithmetic and geometry are implicitly innate, awaiting revelation [Leibniz]
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Children learn language fast, with little instruction and few definitions [Leibniz]
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All of our thoughts come from within the soul, and not from the senses [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / c. Tabula rasa
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What is left of the 'blank page' if you remove the ideas? [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
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Mathematical analysis ends in primitive principles, which cannot be and need not be demonstrated [Leibniz]
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An a priori proof is independent of experience [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
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Not all of perception is accompanied by consciousness [Leibniz]
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'Perception' is basic internal representation, and 'apperception' is reflective knowledge of perception [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
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We know objects by perceptions, but their qualities don't reveal what it is we are perceiving [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique
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Light, heat and colour are apparent qualities, and so are motion, figure and extension [Leibniz]
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Colour and pain must express the nature of their stimuli, without exact resemblance [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
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A pain doesn't resemble the movement of a pin, but it resembles the bodily movement pins cause [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception
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Truth arises among sensations from grounding reasons and from regularities [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
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You may experience a universal truth, but only reason can tell you that it is always true [Leibniz]
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We only believe in sensible things when reason helps the senses [Leibniz]
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We all expect the sun to rise tomorrow by experience, but astronomers expect it by reason [Leibniz]
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The senses are confused, and necessities come from distinct intellectual ideas [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
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There is nothing in the understanding but experiences, plus the understanding itself, and the understander [Leibniz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
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Knowledge doesn't just come from the senses; we know the self, substance, identity, being etc. [Leibniz]
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Our sensation of green is a confused idea, like objects blurred by movement [Leibniz]
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