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Ideas for 'A Discourse on Method', 'On Mental Entities' and 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori'

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 6. A Priori from Reason

3617	I aim to find the principles and causes of everything, using the seeds within my mind [Descartes]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

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Sense-data are dubious abstractions, with none of the plausibility of tables [Quine]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

3611	Understanding, rather than imagination or senses, gives knowledge [Descartes]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism

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Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine]