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Ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'On What There Is' and 'Aristotle and the Metaphysics'

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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

18209	We can never translate our whole language of objects into phenomenalism [Quine]
	Full Idea: There is no likelihood that each sentence about physical objects can actually be translated, however deviously and complexly, into the phenomenalistic language.
	From: Willard Quine (On What There Is [1948], p.18), quoted by Penelope Maddy - Naturalism in Mathematics III.2

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)