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All the ideas for 'poems', 'Representation in Music' and 'Il Saggiatore ('The Assayer')'

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

7401	Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck]

5454	Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

16560

Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

12167

Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language

12166

If music refers to love, it contains no predication, so it is expression, not language [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / a. Music

12168

Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton]

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

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

3645	To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo]