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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Essay on Probability', 'The World' and 'Apprehension: reason in absence of Rules'

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6 ideas

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
22593 Our sensation of light may not be the same as what produces the sensation [Descartes]
12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 1. Common Sense
22668 Apprehension is a complex intellect grasping the essence of a complex object [Holt,L]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony
7458 The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking]
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]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
16569 The Hot, Cold, Wet and Dry of the philosophers need themselves to be explained [Descartes]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / b. Laws of motion
20964 Descartes said there was conservation of 'quantity of motion' [Descartes, by Papineau]