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All the ideas for 'A Puzzle about Belief', 'Natural Science (lost)' and 'What is Art?'

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9 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

527	Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files

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Puzzled Pierre has two mental files about the same object [Recanati on Kripke]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

8122	True works of art transmit completely new feelings [Tolstoy]

8121	Art is when one man uses external signs to hand on his feelings to another man [Tolstoy]

8124	The highest feelings of mankind can only be transmitted by art [Tolstoy]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art

8123	The purpose of art is to help mankind to evolve better, more socially beneficial feelings [Tolstoy]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

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People estimate art according to their moral values [Tolstoy]

8125	The upper classes put beauty first, and thus freed themselves from morality [Tolstoy]

8064	We separate the concept of beauty from goodness, unlike the ancients [Tolstoy]