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All the ideas for 'There is no a Priori', 'What Mary Didn't Know' and 'Concepts without Boundaries'

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11 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

8983	If 'red' is vague, then membership of the set of red things is vague, so there is no set of red things [Sainsbury]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation

8986	We should abandon classifying by pigeon-holes, and classify around paradigms [Sainsbury]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

8982	Vague concepts are concepts without boundaries [Sainsbury]

8984	If concepts are vague, people avoid boundaries, can't spot them, and don't want them [Sainsbury]

8985	Boundaryless concepts tend to come in pairs, such as child/adult, hot/cold [Sainsbury]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

9354	Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts

9353	We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

9356	The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia

4894	I say Mary does not have new knowledge, but knows an old fact in a new way [Perry on Jackson]

4895	Is it unfair that physicalist knowledge can be written down, but dualist knowledge can't be [Perry on Jackson]

4886	Mary knows all the physical facts of seeing red, but experiencing it is new knowledge [Jackson]