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Ideas for 'works', 'Properties' and 'Enquiry Conc Human Understanding'

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
11239 The notion of a priori truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
2191 Relations of ideas are known by thought, independently from the world [Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique
2239 If secondary qualities (e.g. hardness) are in the mind, so are primary qualities like extension [Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
2237 It never occurs to people that they only experience representations, not the real objects [Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
23312 Aristotle is a rationalist, but reason is slowly acquired through perception and experience [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
2192 All reasoning about facts is causal; nothing else goes beyond memory and senses [Hume]
2182 Impressions are our livelier perceptions, Ideas the less lively ones [Hume]
2190 All objects of enquiry are Relations of Ideas, or Matters of Fact [Hume]
2246 If books don't relate ideas or explain facts, commit them to the flames [Hume]
2184 All ideas are copies of impressions [Hume]
23631 Hume is loose when he says perceptions of different strength are different species [Reid on Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
2189 All ideas are connected by Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause and Effect [Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
2186 We cannot form the idea of something we haven't experienced [Hume]
2702 Only madmen dispute the authority of experience [Hume]
2217 When definitions are pushed to the limit, only experience can make them precise [Hume]
2205 You couldn't reason at all if you lacked experience [Hume]
2194 How could Adam predict he would drown in water or burn in fire? [Hume]
2183 We can only invent a golden mountain by combining experiences [Hume]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
23421 If a person had a gap in their experience of blue shades, they could imaginatively fill it in [Hume]
3902 Hume mistakenly lumps sensations and perceptions together as 'impressions' [Scruton on Hume]
10404 Extreme empiricists can hardly explain anything [Swoyer]
12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
16111 Aristotle wants to fit common intuitions, and therefore uses language as a guide [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]