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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 4: Conception' and 'talk'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

8011	Aristotle is a buffoon who has misled the Church [Luther, by MacIntyre]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition

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Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / b. Conceivable but impossible

11958

Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

23646

Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference

23645

A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6609	With respect to religion, reason is a blind whore [Luther]