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Ideas for Mary Wollstonecraft, Aristotle and David Hume

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
11239 The notion of a priori truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / c. Tabula rasa
5051 The intellect has potential to think, like a tablet on which nothing has yet been written [Aristotle]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
2191 Relations of ideas are known by thought, independently from the world [Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
16723 Perception of sensible objects is virtually never wrong [Aristotle]
1724 Perception necessitates pleasure and pain, which necessitates appetite [Aristotle]
1730 Why do we have many senses, and not just one? [Aristotle]
17711 Our minds take on the form of what is being perceived [Aristotle, by Mares]
1732 Sense organs aren't the end of sensation, or they would know what does the sensing [Aristotle]
1725 Why can't we sense the senses? And why do senses need stimuli? [Aristotle]
12379 You cannot understand anything through perception [Aristotle]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary
16717 Which of the contrary features of a body are basic to it? [Aristotle]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities
1728 Many objects of sensation are common to all the senses [Aristotle]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
16725 Some knowledge is lost if you lose a sense, and there is no way the knowledge can be replaced [Aristotle]
1727 Some objects of sensation are unique to one sense, where deception is impossible [Aristotle]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique
2239 If secondary qualities (e.g. hardness) are in the mind, so are primary qualities like extension [Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
2237 It never occurs to people that they only experience representations, not the real objects [Hume]
1734 In moral thought images are essential, to be pursued or avoided [Aristotle]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception
5220 Particular facts (such as 'is it cooked?') are matters of sense-perception, not deliberation [Aristotle]
12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
23312 Aristotle is a rationalist, but reason is slowly acquired through perception and experience [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
1726 We may think when we wish, but not perceive, because universals are within the mind [Aristotle]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
2184 All ideas are copies of impressions [Hume]
2182 Impressions are our livelier perceptions, Ideas the less lively ones [Hume]
2246 If books don't relate ideas or explain facts, commit them to the flames [Hume]
2190 All objects of enquiry are Relations of Ideas, or Matters of Fact [Hume]
23631 Hume is loose when he says perceptions of different strength are different species [Reid on Hume]
2192 All reasoning about facts is causal; nothing else goes beyond memory and senses [Hume]
21309 A proposition cannot be intelligible or consistent, if the perceptions are not so [Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
2189 All ideas are connected by Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause and Effect [Hume]
6489 Associationism results from having to explain intentionality just with sense-data [Robinson,H on Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
2194 How could Adam predict he would drown in water or burn in fire? [Hume]
2183 We can only invent a golden mountain by combining experiences [Hume]
21285 Events are baffling before experience, and obvious after experience [Hume]
543 All men long to understand, as shown by their delight in the senses [Aristotle]
2186 We cannot form the idea of something we haven't experienced [Hume]
2702 Only madmen dispute the authority of experience [Hume]
2205 You couldn't reason at all if you lacked experience [Hume]
2217 When definitions are pushed to the limit, only experience can make them precise [Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
23309 Aristotle's concepts of understanding and explanation mean he is not a pure empiricist [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
1693 Animals may have some knowledge if they retain perception, but understanding requires reasons to be given [Aristotle]
3902 Hume mistakenly lumps sensations and perceptions together as 'impressions' [Scruton on Hume]
6182 Even Hume didn't include mathematics in his empiricism [Hume, by Kant]
23421 If a person had a gap in their experience of blue shades, they could imaginatively fill it in [Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 1. Common Sense
22141 It is enough if we refute the objections and leave common opinions undisturbed [Aristotle]
95 If everyone believes it, it is true [Aristotle]
12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
79 Intuition grasps the definitions that can't be proved [Aristotle]
16111 Aristotle wants to fit common intuitions, and therefore uses language as a guide [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory
9067 Many memories of the same item form a single experience [Aristotle]