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'Parmenides', 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 2: Senses' and 'De Anima'
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
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Truths are self-evident to sensible persons who understand them clearly without prejudice [Reid]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / c. Tabula rasa
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The intellect has potential to think, like a tablet on which nothing has yet been written [Aristotle]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
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Perception of sensible objects is virtually never wrong [Aristotle]
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Perception necessitates pleasure and pain, which necessitates appetite [Aristotle]
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Why do we have many senses, and not just one? [Aristotle]
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Sensation is not committed to any external object, but perception is [Reid]
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Our minds take on the form of what is being perceived [Aristotle, by Mares]
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Why can't we sense the senses? And why do senses need stimuli? [Aristotle]
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Sense organs aren't the end of sensation, or they would know what does the sensing [Aristotle]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities
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Many objects of sensation are common to all the senses [Aristotle]
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Primary qualities are the object of mathematics [Reid]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
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Some objects of sensation are unique to one sense, where deception is impossible [Aristotle]
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Secondary qualities conjure up, and are confused with, the sensations which produce them [Reid]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
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In moral thought images are essential, to be pursued or avoided [Aristotle]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation
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It is unclear whether a toothache is in the mind or in the tooth, but the word has a single meaning [Reid]
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12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
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We may think when we wish, but not perceive, because universals are within the mind [Aristotle]
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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 1. Common Sense
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Reid is seen as the main direct realist of the eighteenth century [Reid, by Robinson,H]
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