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All the ideas for 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence', 'Cosmic Apprentice' and 'Against the Mathematicians'

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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]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

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Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything [Sagan,D]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / b. Basic beliefs

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Some things are their own criterion, such as straightness, a set of scales, or light [Sext.Empiricus]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique

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How can sceptics show there is no criterion? Weak without, contradiction with [Sext.Empiricus]