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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Possibility of Metaphysics' and 'Problems of Philosophy'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
9199 Wisdom for one instant is as good as wisdom for eternity [Chrysippus]
1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People
20853 Wise men should try to participate in politics, since they are a good influence [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
5361 Philosophers must get used to absurdities [Russell]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
5368 Philosophy verifies that our hierarchy of instinctive beliefs is harmonious and consistent [Russell]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 4. Divisions of Philosophy
20772 Three branches of philosophy: first logic, second ethics, third physics (which ends with theology) [Chrysippus]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
16414 Science needs metaphysics to weed out its presuppositions [Lowe, by Hofweber]
9414 Metaphysics is the mapping of possibilities [Lowe, by Mumford]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
5432 Metaphysics cannot give knowledge of the universe as a whole [Russell]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
8282 Only metaphysics can decide whether identity survives through change [Lowe]
16127 Metaphysics tells us what there could be, rather than what there is [Lowe]
1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
5434 Philosophy is similar to science, and has no special source of wisdom [Russell]