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All the ideas for 'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', 'Punctual and segmentive Hopi verbs' and 'Nietzsche: a philosophical biography'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy

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Hegel, Fichte and Schelling wanted to know Kant's thing-in-itself, as ego, or nature, or spirit [Safranski]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition

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Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / b. Conceivable but impossible

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Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

3914	Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

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Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference

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A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid]