Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Reply to Fifth Objections' and 'On Political Reactions'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance

3626	Knowing the attributes is enough to reveal a substance [Descartes]

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

3630	Our thinking about external things doesn't disprove the existence of innate ideas [Descartes]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

3631	A blind man may still contain the idea of colour [Descartes]

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]

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Unconditional truth-telling makes a society impossible [Constant]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

3640	Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle [Descartes]

3639	Necessary existence is a property which is uniquely part of God's essence [Descartes]