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All the ideas for 'Opus Maius (major works)', 'Comments on a Certain Broadsheet' and 'Reply to Second Objections'

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito

3622	The Cogito is not a syllogism but a self-evident intuition [Descartes]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

2602	What experience could prove 'If a=c and b=c then a=b'? [Descartes]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

2600	The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought [Descartes]

2601	Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them [Descartes]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences

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No one even knows the nature and properties of a fly - why it has that colour, or so many feet [Bacon,R]