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All the ideas for 'Letters to Wagner', 'Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics' and '64: Gryllus - on Rationality in Animals'

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5 ideas

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary

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Why can't we deduce secondary qualities from primary ones, if they cause them? [Buridan]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

1477	Being manly and brave is the result of convention, not of human nature [Plutarch]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / e. Role of pleasure

1478	Animals don't value pleasure, as they cease sexual intercourse after impregnation [Plutarch]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality

1479	Animals have not been led into homosexuality, because they value pleasure very little [Plutarch]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / a. Early Modern matter

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Bare or primary matter is passive; it is clothed or secondary matter which contains action [Leibniz]