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'Being and Time', 'The Ethics' and 'Tropes'
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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge
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Spinoza's three levels of knowledge are perception/imagination, then principles, then intuitions [Spinoza, by Scruton]
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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
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Understanding is the sole aim of reason, and the only profit for the mind [Spinoza]
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Propositions don't provide understanding, because the understanding must come first [Heidegger, by Polt]
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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / e. Belief holism
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Unlike Descartes' atomism, Spinoza held a holistic view of belief [Spinoza, by Schmid]
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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty
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You only know you are certain of something when you actually are certain of it [Spinoza]
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A man who assents without doubt to a falsehood is not certain, but lacks a cause to make him waver [Spinoza]
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True ideas intrinsically involve the highest degree of certainty [Spinoza]
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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique
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'I think' is useless, because it is contingent, and limited to the first person [Spinoza, by Scruton]
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If we posit 'I' as the starting point, we miss the mind's phenomenal content [Heidegger]
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / b. Direct realism
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Our relationship to a hammer strengthens when we use [Heidegger]
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