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All the ideas for 'Knowledge and its Limits', 'Seven Quodlibets' and 'Sociobiology'

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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Relations are expressed either as absolute facts, or by a relational concept [William of Ockham]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

16779

Cut wood doesn't make a new substance, but seems to make separate subjects [William of Ockham]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

16757

Hot water naturally cools down, which is due to the substantial form of the water [William of Ockham]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

4760	Belief aims at knowledge (rather than truth), and mere believing is a kind of botched knowing [Williamson]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First

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Don't analyse knowledge; use knowledge to analyse other concepts in epistemology [Williamson, by DeRose]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

9102	If an animal approached from a distance, we might abstract 'animal' from one instance [William of Ockham]

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism

9114	There are no secure foundations to prove the separate existence of mind, in reason or experience [William of Ockham]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics

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Genetic behaviours that have enhanced human success include aggression, rape and xenophobia [Wilson,EO, by Okasha]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

9115	To love God means to love whatever God wills to be loved [William of Ockham]