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All the ideas for 'works', 'Quodlibeta' and 'The Web of Belief'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

8460	Philosophers have given precise senses to deduction, probability, computability etc [Quine/Ullian]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

5437	The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

16657

Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three [Henry of Ghent]

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

16658

The only reality in the category of Relation is things from another category [Henry of Ghent]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16645

Accidents are diminished beings, because they are dispositions of substance (unqualified being) [Henry of Ghent]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22012

Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental! [Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / d. Explaining people

5436	Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner]