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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Perceptual Content and Monadic Truth' and '01: Book of Genesis'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought

18424	If two people can have phenomenally identical experiences, they can't involve the self [Brogaard]
	Full Idea: It is plausible that you and I can have perceptual experiences with the same phenomenology of two trees at different distances from us (perhaps at different times). ..So our perceptual experiences cannot contain you or me in the content of representation.
	From: Berit Brogaard (Perceptual Content and Monadic Truth [2009], p.223), quoted by Cappelen,H/Dever,Josh - The Inessential Indexical 08.2
	A reaction: If you accept the example, which seems reasonable, then that pretty conclusively shows that perception is not inherently indexical.

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]
	Full Idea: In singing and playing the lyre, a boy will be likely to reveal not only courage and moderation, but also justice.
	From: Damon (fragments/reports [c.460 BCE], B4), quoted by (who?) - where?

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

7506	God made man in his own image [Anon (Tor)]
	Full Idea: And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
	From: Anon (Tor) (01: Book of Genesis [c.750 BCE], 1.26)
	A reaction: Since we are obviously not identical in every way with God, we can presumably choose in which respects we think of ourselves as being like Him. Reason, understanding, beauty, goodness, consciousness? A troublesome verse, challenged by Darwin.

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 5. Reference to Natural Kinds

16782	The names of all the types of creature were given forever by Adam [Anon (Tor)]
	Full Idea: Whatsoever Adam called any living creature, the same is its name. And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field.
	From: Anon (Tor) (01: Book of Genesis [c.750 BCE], 02:20)

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

4013	And God saw the light, that it was good [Anon (Tor)]
	Full Idea: And God saw the light, that it was good.
	From: Anon (Tor) (01: Book of Genesis [c.750 BCE], 01.04)
	A reaction: The text seems to suggest that God did not decide that it was good, but that it conformed to a standard of goodness.