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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
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Some propositions are self-evident, but their implications may also be self-evident [Russell]
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Particular instances are more clearly self-evident than any general principles [Russell]
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As shown by memory, self-evidence comes in degrees [Russell]
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If self-evidence has degrees, we should accept the more self-evident as correct [Russell]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
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The rationalists were right, because we know logical principles without experience [Russell]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
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All a priori knowledge deals with the relations of universals [Russell]
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We can know some general propositions by universals, when no instance can be given [Russell]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
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Descartes said images can refer to objects without resembling them (as words do) [Descartes, by Tuck]
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Russell's representationalism says primary qualities only show the structure of reality [Russell, by Robinson,H]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory
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After 1912, Russell said sense-data are last in analysis, not first in experience [Russell, by Grayling]
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'Sense-data' are what are immediately known in sensation, such as colours or roughnesses [Russell]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
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If Russell rejects innate ideas and direct a priori knowledge, he is left with a tabula rasa [Russell, by Thompson]
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It is natural to begin from experience, and presumably that is the basis of knowledge [Russell]
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We are acquainted with outer and inner sensation, memory, Self, and universals [Russell, by PG]
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Knowledge by descriptions enables us to transcend private experience [Russell]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
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I can know the existence of something with which nobody is acquainted [Russell]
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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory
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Images are not memory, because they are present, and memories are of the past [Russell]
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