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All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'Philosophy without Intuitions' and 'Comments on a Certain Broadsheet'

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2. Reason / E. Argument / 7. Thought Experiments

20183

So-called 'though experiments' are just philosophers observing features of the world [Cappelen]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

10245

One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

2602	What experience could prove 'If a=c and b=c then a=b'? [Descartes]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition

20182

The word 'intuitive' often plays not role at all in arguments, and can be removed [Cappelen]

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

2600	The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought [Descartes]

2601	Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them [Descartes]