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All the ideas for 'Elbow Room: varieties of free will', 'Sententia on 'De Caelo'' and 'works'

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13 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

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Philosophy aims to know the truth about the way things are [Aquinas]

3798	An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

3801	Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

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All of mathematics is properties of the whole numbers [Kronecker]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers

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God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man [Kronecker]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / c. Possible but inconceivable

3802	Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification

3795	Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett]

16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents

3797	I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

3800	You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG]

3803	Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

3791	Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett]

3794	Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett]

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 3. Intentional Stance

3796	The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett]