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All the ideas for 'General Draft', 'Geometrical Method and Metaphysics' and 'What Mary Didn't Know'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

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Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

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Minds are best explained by their ends, and bodies by efficient causes [Leibniz]

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]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation

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Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis]