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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

2602	What experience could prove 'If a=c and b=c then a=b'? [Descartes]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

7544	Many people imagine that to experience is to understand [Goethe]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism

7541	Man never understands how anthropomorphic he is [Goethe]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self

7543	We gain self-knowledge through action, not thought - especially when doing our duty [Goethe]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

2600	The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought [Descartes]

2601	Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them [Descartes]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty

7540	Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws [Goethe]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

7538	The happiest people link the beginning and end of life [Goethe]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State

7542	The best form of government teaches us to govern ourselves [Goethe]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

7539	To get duties from people without rights, you must pay them well [Goethe]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

22745

Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

5883	Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero]