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All the ideas for 'Locke on Human Understanding', 'On the Nature of Truth and Falsehood' and 'works'

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11 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

6343	For Russell, both propositions and facts are arrangements of objects, so obviously they correspond [Horwich on Russell]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

7720	Two things can only resemble one another in some respect, and that may reintroduce a universal [Lowe]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

7712	On substances, Leibniz emphasises unity, Spinoza independence, Locke relations to qualities [Lowe]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / d. Cause of beliefs

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Belief is no more rational than is tasting and smelling [Hamann]

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

7710	Perception is a mode of belief-acquisition, and does not involve sensation [Lowe]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 7. Causal Perception

7711	Science requires a causal theory - perception of an object must be an experience caused by the object [Lowe]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 1. Identity and the Self

7714	Personal identity is a problem across time (diachronic) and at an instant (synchronic) [Lowe]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

7715	Mentalese isn't a language, because it isn't conventional, or a means of public communication [Lowe]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental

7722	If meaning is mental pictures, explain "the cat (or dog!) is NOT on the mat" [Lowe]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 6. Propositions Critique

7534	In 1906, Russell decided that propositions did not, after all, exist [Russell, by Monk]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

7666	God is not a mathematician, but a poet [Hamann, by Berlin]