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All the ideas for 'Letters to Mersenne', 'Goodness and Choice' and 'Intending'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

3653	My Meditations are the complete foundation of my physics [Descartes]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth

4736	Truth is such a transcendentally clear notion that it cannot be further defined [Descartes]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

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An intending is a judgement that the action is desirable [Davidson]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

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Davidson gave up reductive accounts of intention, and said it was a primitive [Davidson, by Wilson/Schpall]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function

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Being a good father seems to depend on intentions, rather than actual abilities [Foot]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 3. Natural Function

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Some words, such as 'knife', have a meaning which involves its function [Foot]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

3652	I can't prove the soul is indestructible, only that it is separate from the mortal body [Descartes]