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All the ideas for 'Sweet Dreams', 'The Fragmentation of Reason' and 'Reply to Fifth Objections'

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12 ideas

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth
6627 Radical pragmatists abandon the notion of truth [Stich, by Lowe]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
3626 Knowing the attributes is enough to reveal a substance [Descartes]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
3630 Our thinking about external things doesn't disprove the existence of innate ideas [Descartes]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / c. Explaining qualia
7658 Obviously there can't be a functional anaylsis of qualia if they are defined by intrinsic properties [Dennett]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
7655 The work done by the 'homunculus in the theatre' must be spread amongst non-conscious agencies [Dennett]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind
7657 Intelligent agents are composed of nested homunculi, of decreasing intelligence, ending in machines [Dennett]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
7656 I don't deny consciousness; it just isn't what people think it is [Dennett]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality
4765 Stich accepts eliminativism (labelled 'pragmatism') about rationality and normativity [Stich, by Engel]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence
7654 What matters about neuro-science is the discovery of the functional role of the chemistry [Dennett]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts
3631 A blind man may still contain the idea of colour [Descartes]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
3640 Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle [Descartes]
3639 Necessary existence is a property which is uniquely part of God's essence [Descartes]