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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Representation in Music' and 'Comments on a Certain Broadsheet'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

2602	What experience could prove 'If a=c and b=c then a=b'? [Descartes]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

2600	The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought [Descartes]

2601	Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them [Descartes]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

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Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language

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If music refers to love, it contains no predication, so it is expression, not language [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / a. Music

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Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton]