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All the ideas for 'People and Their Bodies', 'Two Chief World Systems' and 'Quodlibeta'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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How can point-duration slices of people have beliefs or desires? [Thomson]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge

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Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas]

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

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Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / b. Laws of motion

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Galileo mathematised movement, and revealed its invariable component - acceleration [Galileo, by Meillassoux]