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All the ideas for 'Ethics without Principles', 'The Problem of Consciousness' and 'Preface to Great Instauration (Renewal)'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

6602	Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

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The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

6603	Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon]

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism

7388	McGinn invites surrender, by saying it is hopeless trying to imagine conscious machines [Dennett on McGinn]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability

3185	Multiple realisability rules out hidden essences and experts as the source of water- and gold-concepts [McGinn]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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The base for values has grounds, catalysts and intensifiers [Dancy,J, by Orsi]