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Ideas for 'Locke on Human Understanding', 'Human Knowledge: its scope and limits' and 'Letters to Queen Charlotte'

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

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We know objects by perceptions, but their qualities don't reveal what it is we are perceiving [Leibniz]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7710	Perception is a mode of belief-acquisition, and does not involve sensation [Lowe]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 7. Causal Perception

7711	Science requires a causal theory - perception of an object must be an experience caused by the object [Lowe]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

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There is nothing in the understanding but experiences, plus the understanding itself, and the understander [Leibniz]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

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It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell]