Combining Philosophers

Ideas for William James, Galileo Galilei and Roderick Firth

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

7401	Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck]

5454	Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

6493	We are not conscious of pure liquidity, but of the liquidity of water [Firth]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

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Pragmatism accepts any hypothesis which has useful consequences [James]