Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'Two letters on mind'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

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Tell cleverness from answers, but wisdom from questions [Mahfouz]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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Incorporeal substances are powers or forces [Descartes, by Pasnau]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension

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Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]