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All the ideas for 'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'Prescriptivism' and 'Reflections on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions

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'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

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Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz]

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

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True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

7861	Libet says the processes initiated in the cortex can still be consciously changed [Libet, by Papineau]

6660	Libet found conscious choice 0.2 secs before movement, well after unconscious 'readiness potential' [Libet, by Lowe]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

2854	Prescriptivism says 'ought' without commitment to act is insincere, or weakly used [Hooker,B]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule

2856	Universal moral judgements imply the Golden Rule ('do as you would be done by') [Hooker,B]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

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In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz]