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All the ideas for 'A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility', 'On Wisdom' and 'Mind and World'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

19396

Wisdom is knowing all of the sciences, and their application [Leibniz]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason

8251	The logical space of reasons is a natural phenomenon, and it is the realm of freedom [McDowell]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths

15547

Negative existentials have 'totality facts' as truthmakers [Armstrong, by Lewis]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

15542

All possibilities are recombinations of properties in the actual world [Armstrong, by Lewis]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

19397

Perfect knowledge implies complete explanations and perfect prediction [Leibniz]

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

8128	Representation must be propositional if it can give reasons and be epistemological [McDowell, by Burge]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

19092

There is no pure Given, but it is cultured, rather than entirely relative [McDowell, by Macbeth]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

8253	Sense impressions already have conceptual content [McDowell]

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

8254	Forming concepts by abstraction from the Given is private definition, which the Private Lang. Arg. attacks [McDowell]