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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Rules for the Direction of the Mind' and 'Letters to Russell'

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24 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
24032 Clever scholars can obscure things which are obvious even to peasants [Descartes]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
24033 Most scholastic disputes concern words, where agreeing on meanings would settle them [Descartes]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason
24024 The secret of the method is to recognise which thing in a series is the simplest [Descartes]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
24018 One truth leads us to another [Descartes]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers
18253 I wish to go straight from cardinals to reals (as ratios), leaving out the rationals [Frege]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / a. Units
24036 I can only see the proportion of two to three if there is a common measure - their unity [Descartes]
24035 Unity is something shared by many things, so in that respect they are equals [Descartes]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism
18166 The loss of my Rule V seems to make foundations for arithmetic impossible [Frege]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
24029 Among the simples are the graspable negations, such as rest and instants [Descartes]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta
18269 Logical objects are extensions of concepts, or ranges of values of functions [Frege]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts
24030 3+4=7 is necessary because we cannot conceive of seven without including three and four [Descartes]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty
24019 If we accept mere probabilities as true we undermine our existing knowledge [Descartes]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito
24020 We all see intuitively that we exist, where intuition is attentive, clear and distinct rational understanding [Descartes]
24031 When Socrates doubts, he know he doubts, and that truth is possible [Descartes]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
24025 Clear and distinct truths must be known all at once (unlike deductions) [Descartes]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
24022 Our souls possess divine seeds of knowledge, which can bear spontaneous fruit [Descartes]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
24034 If someone had only seen the basic colours, they could deduce the others from resemblance [Descartes]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism
24021 The method starts with clear intuitions, followed by a process of deduction [Descartes]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain
24027 Nerves and movement originate in the brain, where imagination moves them [Descartes]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties
24026 Our four knowledge faculties are intelligence, imagination, the senses, and memory [Descartes]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism
24028 The force by which we know things is spiritual, and quite distinct from the body [Descartes]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
13304 Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature
24023 All the sciences searching for order and measure are related to mathematics [Descartes]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure
20820 Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]