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Ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'Existentialism: an introduction' and 'Philebus'

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

389	How can you be certain about aspects of the world if they aren't constant? [Plato]
	Full Idea: Could we attribute certainty to studying aspects of the world, such as how it arose, or acts, or is acted upon, when none of them ever was or will be constant? Of course not.
	From: Plato (Philebus [c.353 BCE], 59b)

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

21958	Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]
	Full Idea: Appearances in general are nothing outside our representations, which is just what we mean by transcendental ideality.
	From: A.W. Moore (The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics [2012], B535/A507)