Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Virtues of Authenticity'', 'Disputed questions about truth' and 'Letters to Thomasius'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being

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Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms

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Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

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Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

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

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'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

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Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]