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All the ideas for 'Letters to William Molyneux', 'Essentials of Pragmatism' and 'Commentary on 'Posterior Analytics'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
12812 Things have real essences, but we categorise them according to the ideas we receive [Locke]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism
14794 Instead of seeking Truth, we should seek belief that is beyond doubt [Peirce]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / b. Concepts as abilities
14792 A 'conception', the rational implication of a word, lies in its bearing upon the conduct of life [Peirce]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / b. Analysis of concepts
14793 The definition of a concept is just its experimental implications [Peirce]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique
9073 Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same [Barnes,J]
9074 Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature [Barnes,J]
9072 Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities [Barnes,J]