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All the ideas for 'Folk Psychology', 'Of Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking' and 'Does Moral Subjectivism Rest on a Mistake?'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis
5021 An idea is analysed perfectly when it is shown a priori that it is possible [Leibniz]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / d. Rational foundations
5020 Our thoughts are either dependent, or self-evident. All thoughts seem to end in the self-evident [Leibniz]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology
7518 If folk psychology gives a network of causal laws, that fits neatly with functionalism [Churchland,PM]
7519 Many mental phenomena are totally unexplained by folk psychology [Churchland,PM]
7520 Folk psychology never makes any progress, and is marginalised by modern science [Churchland,PM]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism
22485 Non-cognitivists give the conditions of use of moral sentences as facts about the speaker [Foot]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
22486 The mistake is to think good grounds aren't enough for moral judgement, which also needs feelings [Foot]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
22487 Moral arguments are grounded in human facts [Foot]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
5019 Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz]