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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Making of a Philosopher' and 'On Mental Entities'

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

21686

Sense-data are dubious abstractions, with none of the plausibility of tables [Quine]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism

21685

Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

4691	If all mental life were conscious, we would be unable to see things, or to process speech [McGinn]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention

4690	If meaning is speaker's intentions, it can be reduced to propositional attitudes, and philosophy of mind [McGinn]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]