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Ideas for 'Clitophon', 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 2: Senses' and 'Meditations'

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
23635 Truths are self-evident to sensible persons who understand them clearly without prejudice [Reid]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
2279 A triangle has a separate non-invented nature, shown by my ability to prove facts about it [Descartes]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
7631 Sensation is not committed to any external object, but perception is [Reid]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities
6490 For Descartes, objects have one primary quality, which is geometrical [Descartes, by Robinson,H]
23637 Primary qualities are the object of mathematics [Reid]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
23638 Secondary qualities conjure up, and are confused with, the sensations which produce them [Reid]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation
23639 It is unclear whether a toothache is in the mind or in the tooth, but the word has a single meaning [Reid]
2295 Why does pain make us sad? [Descartes]
12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
3627 Dogs can make the same judgements as us about variable things [Gassendi on Descartes]
2265 We perceive objects by intellect, not by senses or imagination [Descartes]
2263 The wax is not perceived by the senses, but by the mind alone [Descartes]
2264 We don't 'see' men in heavy clothes, we judge them to be men [Descartes]
12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 1. Common Sense
6492 Reid is seen as the main direct realist of the eighteenth century [Reid, by Robinson,H]