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All the ideas for 'Does Moral Subjectivism Rest on a Mistake?', 'Il Saggiatore ('The Assayer')' and 'What is Property?'

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

7401	Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck]

5454	Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

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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

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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

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Moral arguments are grounded in human facts [Foot]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights

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Property is theft! [Proudhon]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

3645	To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo]