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All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence' and 'works'

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14 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

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Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

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Descartes showed a one-one order-preserving match between points on a line and the real numbers [Descartes, by Hart,WD]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique

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Descartes thinks distinguishing substances from aggregates is pointless [Descartes, by Pasnau]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

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Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

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All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 4. Type Identity

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Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe]

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

7400	Descartes said images can refer to objects without resembling them (as words do) [Descartes, by Tuck]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will

4310	We have inner awareness of our freedom [Descartes]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism

6553	Descartes discussed the interaction problem, and compared it with gravity [Descartes, by Lycan]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

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Nature is devoid of thought [Descartes, by Meillassoux]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension

6518	Matter can't just be Descartes's geometry, because a filler of the spaces is needed [Robinson,H on Descartes]