Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'The Making of a Philosopher' and 'A World of Propensities'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers

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Propensities are part of a situation, not part of the objects [Popper]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

4691	If all mental life were conscious, we would be unable to see things, or to process speech [McGinn]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention

4690	If meaning is speaker's intentions, it can be reduced to propositional attitudes, and philosophy of mind [McGinn]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]