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All the ideas for 'Phenomenalism', 'Toward a Philosophy of History' and 'The Mental Life of Some Machines'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)

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For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

2614	Modern phenomenalism holds that objects are logical constructions out of sense-data [Ayer]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

2615	The concept of sense-data allows us to discuss appearances without worrying about reality [Ayer]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett]