Descartes: The Probable and the CertainRodopi, 1986 - 374 pages |
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Contents
System of References | 1 |
DOUBT AND CERTAINTY | 14 |
Uncertainty 625 | 23 |
Unified Science Thesis | 40 |
THE SENSES | 45 |
RATIONALITY AND MIND | 81 |
Nonlocal extension and a crucial objection | 105 |
the waxexperiment explained | 112 |
LANGUAGE | 263 |
Action theory vs semantics | 267 |
Magpies and soldiers | 272 |
Chomskys error | 277 |
Descartes classificatory motives | 279 |
Confusing the probable and the material | 281 |
practical and scientific | 285 |
The story so far | 290 |
a red herring | 120 |
THE SEMANTICS OF INCOMPLETENESS | 162 |
Nominalityinduction and normal nominality | 189 |
Loose ends | 195 |
Universals | 204 |
some indications | 211 |
Inclusive vs abstractive collectors | 215 |
Principal attributes and determinables | 217 |
Enumeration texts | 223 |
What is a Cartesian real distinction | 226 |
Aristotle and Plato on the actual and the possible | 231 |
Descartes antiAristotelianism | 236 |
Waxexperiment | 240 |
Two kinds of abstraction | 243 |
confirming the categories | 247 |
A defect of reason? | 251 |
Linguistic inadequacy in the classical era | 296 |
Principal attributes and determinables again | 301 |
a diagnosis | 306 |
Descartes selfmisunderstanding | 309 |
Kantian parallels | 313 |
KANT | 316 |
some armchair etymology | 317 |
Space as a form of intuition | 322 |
more armchair etymology | 326 |
Kants critique and Descartes protocritique | 331 |
Discursivity and appearance | 338 |
Kantian ontology and appearances | 346 |
Kants moral man and dualism | 352 |
359 | |
Common terms and phrases
abstraction actual adequate anti-realist argument Aristotelian Aristotle aspectual assertion body Cartesian Cartesian dualism Cartesian Linguistics Cartesian material certainty character characterised Chomsky Chomsky's claim clear and distinct cogito colour conception of things condition construal contrast critical critique denying Descartes determination Discourse divine dualism epistemological establish fact finite follows formulation function Gassendi grasp hence human ibid./ibid idea ideational representation ignoratio elenchi imagination implications inadequate intensional interpretation intuition Kant Kant's Kantian Kenny kind knowledge language Leibniz linguistic material matter means Meditation mereological metaphysical mind mode of cognition monopolar nature non-ideational representation normal notion object ontological perception phrase position predicates principal attribute principle probable cogniser proposition rational reason recognised reference referential relation Replies representative content result sceptical scientific semantic sense sense-based beliefs sense-perceptual specific Spinoza structure substance substantial texts thinking thought truth uncertainty understanding unified science wax-experiment words