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All the ideas for 'In Praise of Philosophy', 'Perception' and 'Letter to Clerk Maxwell'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

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Philosophers are marked by a joint love of evidence and ambiguity [Merleau-Ponty]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 6. Knowing How

7630	Ryle's dichotomy between knowing how and knowing that is too simplistic [Maund]

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

7632	Perception is sensation-then-concept, or direct-concepts, or sensation-saturated-in-concepts [Maund]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

7635	Sense-data have an epistemological purpose (foundations) and a metaphysical purpose (explanation) [Maund]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7638	One thesis says we are not aware of qualia, but only of objects and their qualities [Maund]

7642	The Myth of the Given claims that thought is rationally supported by non-conceptual experiences [Maund]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 8. Adverbial Theory

7640	Mountains are adverbial modifications of the earth, but still have object-characteristics [Maund]

7641	Adverbialism tries to avoid sense-data and preserve direct realism [Maund]

18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content

7637	Thought content is either satisfaction conditions, or exercise of concepts [Maund, by PG]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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By 'force' I mean the sources of all actions - sometimes called 'powers' by their outcomes [Breheny]