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All the ideas for 'The Intrinsic Quality of Experience', 'De rebus naturalibus' and 'Letters'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
16740 A power is not a cause, but an aptitude for a cause [Zabarella]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality
8130 Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
4581 Virtues and vices are like secondary qualities in perception, found in observers, not objects [Hume]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
4580 All virtues benefit either the public, or the individual who possesses them [Hume]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter
16571 Prime matter is exceptionally obscure [Zabarella]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes
4579 The idea of a final cause is very uncertain and unphilosophical [Hume]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
20705 That events could be uncaused is absurd; I only say intuition and demonstration don't show this [Hume]