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Ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'Truth-making and Correspondence' and 'The Essential Child'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

15707	There is intentional, mechanical, teleological, essentialist, vitalist and deontological understanding [Gelman]
	Full Idea: The modes of understanding (or modes of construal) which have been proposed are intentional, mechanical, teleological, essentialist, vitalist (perhaps), and deontological.
	From: Susan A. Gelman (The Essential Child [2003], 11 'Broadening')
	A reaction: She cites psychological research to support this, and calls it 'a relatively small number' of modes. Compare Aristotle's four modes of cause/explanation.

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)