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All the ideas for 'Quodlibeta', 'Commentary on 'Posterior Analytics' and 'The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
16657 Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three [Henry of Ghent]
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
16658 The only reality in the category of Relation is things from another category [Henry of Ghent]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
16645 Accidents are diminished beings, because they are dispositions of substance (unqualified being) [Henry of Ghent]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
22012 Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental! [Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation
18278 Kant showed that our perceptions are partly constructed from our concepts [Reichenbach]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique
9074 Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature [Barnes,J]
9073 Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same [Barnes,J]
9072 Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities [Barnes,J]