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All the ideas for 'Commentary on 'De Anima'', 'On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense' and 'Il Saggiatore ('The Assayer')'

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

7401	Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck]

5454	Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

16560

Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

20363

Leaves are unequal, but we form the concept 'leaf' by discarding their individual differences [Nietzsche]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

16764

The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

3645	To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo]