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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Essay on Probability', 'Review of 'Aenesidemus'' and 'Commentary on Euclid's 'Elements''

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6 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

22062

Mental presentation are not empirical, but concern the strivings of the self [Fichte]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22015

The thing-in-itself is an empty dream [Fichte, by Pinkard]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

7458	The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking]

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

13165

Geometrical proofs do not show causes, as when we prove a triangle contains two right angles [Proclus]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

3441	If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9569	The origin of geometry started in sensation, then moved to calculation, and then to reason [Proclus]