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All the ideas for 'Epistemology', 'poems' and 'works'

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15 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

7301	The phenomenalist says that to be is to be perceivable [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

7302	Linguistic phenomenalism says we can eliminate talk of physical objects [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

7303	If we lack enough sense-data, are we to say that parts of reality are 'indeterminate'? [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

22167

Our images of bodies are not produced by the bodies, but by our own minds [Augustine, by Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities

7299	Primary qualities can be described mathematically, unlike secondary qualities [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

7300	An object cannot remain an object without its primary qualities [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

22117

Our minds grasp reality by direct illumination (rather than abstraction from experience) [Augustine, by Matthews]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique

7297	My justifications might be very coherent, but totally unconnected to the world [Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

22118

Augustine created the modern concept of the will [Augustine, by Matthews]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

4348	Love, and do what you will [Augustine]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

7821	Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good [Augustine, by Grayling]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

22119

Augustine said (unusually) that 'ought' does not imply 'can' [Augustine, by Matthews]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

22116

Augustine identified Donatism, Pelagianism and Manicheism as the main heresies [Augustine, by Matthews]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / b. Human Evil

19338

Augustine said evil does not really exist, and evil is a limitation in goodness [Augustine, by Perkins]