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All the ideas for 'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'The Search After Truth' and 'Knowledge and its Limits'

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6 ideas

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

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Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

4760	Belief aims at knowledge (rather than truth), and mere believing is a kind of botched knowing [Williamson]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First

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Don't analyse knowledge; use knowledge to analyse other concepts in epistemology [Williamson, by DeRose]

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]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche]