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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'works' and 'The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

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The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' [Leroi]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

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For clear questions posed by reason, reason can also find clear answers [Gödel]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic

9188	Gödel proved that first-order logic is complete, and second-order logic incomplete [Gödel, by Dummett]

5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 2. Formal Truth

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Originally truth was viewed with total suspicion, and only demonstrability was accepted [Gödel]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 5. Incompleteness

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Gödel's Theorems did not refute the claim that all good mathematical questions have answers [Gödel, by Koellner]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / g. Incompleteness of Arithmetic

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Gödel eventually hoped for a generalised completeness theorem leaving nothing undecidable [Gödel, by Koellner]

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The real reason for Incompleteness in arithmetic is inability to define truth in a language [Gödel]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]