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All the ideas for 'Theory of Knowledge (2nd edn)', 'Self, Body and Coincidence' and 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy

2945	Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

2946	You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

23449

Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

23484

Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

23494

Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

23451

Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M]

23460

To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M]

23452

Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties

14534

Shoemaker moved from properties as powers to properties bestowing powers [Shoemaker, by Mumford/Anjum]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

23491

There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M]