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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'There is No A Priori (and reply)' and 'Natural Minds'

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10 ideas

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

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How could the mind have a link to the necessary character of reality? [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

19564

Some knowledge must be empirical; naturalism implies that all knowledge is like that [Devitt]

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

6375	The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 1. Self and Consciousness

6381	The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 5. Teleological Functionalism

6378	Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

6380	Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

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Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 3. Natural Function

6379	A mummified heart has the teleological function of circulating blood [Polger]

6377	Teleological notions of function say what a thing is supposed to do [Polger]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]