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'The Strangest Man', 'Meditations' and 'fragments/reports'
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
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There are non-sensible presentations, which come to us through the intellect [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / c. Tabula rasa
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Stoics say we are born like a blank sheet of paper; the first concepts on it are sensations [Stoic school, by Ps-Plutarch]
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At birth the soul is a blank sheet ready to be written on [Stoic school, by Aetius]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
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A triangle has a separate non-invented nature, shown by my ability to prove facts about it [Descartes]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities
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For Descartes, objects have one primary quality, which is geometrical [Descartes, by Robinson,H]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
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Non-graspable presentations are from what doesn't exist, or are not clear and distinct [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation
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Why does pain make us sad? [Descartes]
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Stoic perception is a presentation to which one voluntarily assents [Stoic school, by Stobaeus]
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12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
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Dogs can make the same judgements as us about variable things [Gassendi on Descartes]
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We perceive objects by intellect, not by senses or imagination [Descartes]
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The wax is not perceived by the senses, but by the mind alone [Descartes]
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We don't 'see' men in heavy clothes, we judge them to be men [Descartes]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
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All our concepts come from experience, directly, or by expansion, reduction or compounding [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
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