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All the ideas for '67: Platonic Questions', 'Knowledge and its Limits' and 'Panpsychism'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties

3291	Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

4760	Belief aims at knowledge (rather than truth), and mere believing is a kind of botched knowing [Williamson]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First

19512

Don't analyse knowledge; use knowledge to analyse other concepts in epistemology [Williamson, by DeRose]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5960	When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

3290	Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel]