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'Elements of Mind', 'Epistemology: contemporary introduction' and 'Prescriptivism'
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
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The concepts needed for a priori thought may come from experience [Audi,R]
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Red and green being exclusive colours seems to be rationally graspable but not analytic [Audi,R]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
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Phenol-thio-urea tastes bitter to three-quarters of people, but to the rest it is tasteless, so which is it? [Crane]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
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How could I see a field and believe nothing regarding it? [Audi,R]
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To see something as a field, I obviously need the concept of a field [Audi,R]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory
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Sense data imply representative realism, possibly only representing primary qualities [Audi,R]
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One can taste that the wine is sour, and one can also taste the sourness of the wine [Crane]
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The traditional supports for the sense datum theory were seeing double and specks before one's eyes [Crane]
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Sense-data (and the rival 'adverbial' theory) are to explain illusions and hallucinations [Audi,R]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems
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If we smell something we are aware of the smell separately, but we don't perceive a 'look' when we see [Crane]
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The problems of perception disappear if it is a relation to an intentional state, not to an object or sense datum [Crane]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation
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Perception is first simple, then objectual (with concepts) and then propositional [Audi,R]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception
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If perception is much richer than our powers of description, this suggests that it is non-conceptual [Crane]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 8. Adverbial Theory
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The adverbial theory of perceptions says it is the experiences which have properties, not the objects [Crane]
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12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
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Virtually all rationalists assert that we can have knowledge of synthetic a priori truths [Audi,R]
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The principles of justification have to be a priori [Audi,R]
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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory
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To remember something is to know it [Audi,R]
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I might remember someone I can't recall or image, by recognising them on meeting [Audi,R]
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