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All the ideas for 'Logical Investigations', 'Scientific Thought' and 'The Dappled World'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology

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Phenomenology is the science of essences - necessary universal structures for art, representation etc. [Husserl, by Polt]

7614	Bracketing subtracts entailments about external reality from beliefs [Husserl, by Putnam]

6893	Phenomenology aims to describe experience directly, rather than by its origins or causes [Husserl, by Mautner]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

14759

A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]

11842

If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence

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Husserl says we have intellectual intuitions (of categories), as well as of the senses [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

17503

Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block

8160	The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett]

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We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

22933

We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad]