Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Intention', 'The Guide of the Perplexed' and 'The World'

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6 ideas

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

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Our sensation of light may not be the same as what produces the sensation [Descartes]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

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Intentional actions are those which are explained by giving the reason for so acting [Anscombe]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements

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The Hot, Cold, Wet and Dry of the philosophers need themselves to be explained [Descartes]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / b. Laws of motion

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Descartes said there was conservation of 'quantity of motion' [Descartes, by Papineau]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

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We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes [Maimonides]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity

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Thinking of God as resembling humans results from a bad translation of Genesis 1:26 [Maimonides]