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All the ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'Bayesianism' and 'Against the Ethicists (one book)'

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

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Reasoning is impossible without a preconception [Sext.Empiricus]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

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The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie]

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German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie]

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Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

2799	Bayes' theorem explains why very surprising predictions have a higher value as evidence [Horwich]

2798	Probability of H, given evidence E, is prob(H) x prob(E given H) / prob(E) [Horwich]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

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Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it [Sext.Empiricus]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

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Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone [Sext.Empiricus]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

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If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it [Sext.Empiricus]