Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Guide of the Perplexed', 'Introspection' and 'On the Elements of Being: I'

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8 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

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

5691	The adverbial account of sensation says not 'see a red image' but be 'appeared to redly' [Shoemaker]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 1. Introspection

5687	For true introspection, must we be aware that we are aware of our mental events? [Shoemaker]

5688	Empirical foundationalism says basic knowledge is self-intimating, and incorrigible or infallible [Shoemaker]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

20696

We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes [Maimonides]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity

19085

Thinking of God as resembling humans results from a bad translation of Genesis 1:26 [Maimonides]