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All the ideas for 'works', 'Of Grammatology' and 'Commentary on the Metaphysics'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

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The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object

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The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

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An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

3488	Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

5689	Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions

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Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity

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Derrida focuses on ambiguity, but talks of 'dissemination', not traditional multiple meanings [Derrida]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch]