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All the ideas for 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence', 'True Believers' and 'Discipline and Punish'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

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Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

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Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

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All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 4. Type Identity

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Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe]

18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content

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States have content if we can predict them well by assuming intentionality [Dennett, by Schulte]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / a. Centralisation

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Power is localised, so we either have totalitarian centralisation, or local politics [Foucault, by Gutting]

25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle

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Prisons gradually became our models for schools, hospitals and factories [Foucault, by Gutting]