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All the ideas for 'works (fragments)', 'Quodlibeta' and 'Fath and Love, or the King and Queen'

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11 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1815	Reasoning needs arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses (Mode 14) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1812	All discussion is full of uncertainty and contradiction (Mode 11) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1811	Proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved (Mode 15) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1813	All reasoning endlessly leads to further reasoning (Mode 12) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16641

Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

22170

Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge

22169

Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation

22168

Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma

8850	Agrippa's Trilemma: justification is infinite, or ends arbitrarily, or is circular [Agrippa, by Williams,M]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism

1814	Everything is perceived in relation to another thing (Mode 13) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / b. Monarchy

19589

The whole point of a monarch is that we accept them as a higher-born, ideal person [Novalis]