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All the ideas for 'Aristotle and Descartes on Matter', 'Reply to Fifth Objections' and 'Recent Work on Consciousness'

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9 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance

3626	Knowing the attributes is enough to reveal a substance [Descartes]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge

3630	Our thinking about external things doesn't disprove the existence of innate ideas [Descartes]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy

7522	A full neural account of qualia will give new epistemic access to them, beyond private experience [Churchlands]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / c. Explaining qualia

7521	It is question-begging to assume that qualia are totally simple, hence irreducible [Churchlands]

7523	The qualia Hard Problem is easy, in comparison with the co-ordination of mental states [Churchlands]

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

3631	A blind man may still contain the idea of colour [Descartes]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

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Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

3639	Necessary existence is a property which is uniquely part of God's essence [Descartes]

3640	Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle [Descartes]