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All the ideas for 'Does Emp.Knowledge have Foundation?', 'works' and 'Spinoza's Ethics'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought
21855 Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
3534 To be is to have causal powers [Alexander,S]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / c. Empirical foundations
8793 If observation is knowledge, it is not just an experience; it is a justification in the space of reasons [Sellars]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique
8792 Observations like 'this is green' presuppose truths about what is a reliable symptom of what [Sellars]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving
21866 Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 6. Epiphenomenalism
3398 Epiphenomenalism makes the mind totally pointless [Alexander,S]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / f. Theory theory of concepts
8791 The concept of 'green' involves a battery of other concepts [Sellars]