Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Mind and World', 'Two treatises' and 'On Political Reactions'

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9 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason

8251	The logical space of reasons is a natural phenomenon, and it is the realm of freedom [McDowell]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

16597

Quantity is the capacity to be divided [Digby]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation

8128	Representation must be propositional if it can give reasons and be epistemological [McDowell, by Burge]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

19092

There is no pure Given, but it is cultured, rather than entirely relative [McDowell, by Macbeth]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

8253	Sense impressions already have conceptual content [McDowell]

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

8254	Forming concepts by abstraction from the Given is private definition, which the Private Lang. Arg. attacks [McDowell]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

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There are only duties if there are rights, so truth is only for those with a right to it [Constant]

22440

Unconditional truth-telling makes a society impossible [Constant]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles

16731

Colours arise from the rarity, density and mixture of matter [Digby]