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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Academica' and 'Of Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking'

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12 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

5021	An idea is analysed perfectly when it is shown a priori that it is possible [Leibniz]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

2661	Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument [Cicero]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth

2673	There cannot be more than one truth [Cicero]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

2669	Dialectic assumes that all statements are either true or false, but self-referential paradoxes are a big problem [Cicero]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

2664	If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us? [Cicero]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

2665	How can there be a memory of what is false? [Cicero]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / d. Rational foundations

5020	Our thoughts are either dependent, or self-evident. All thoughts seem to end in the self-evident [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism

20800

Every true presentation can have a false one of the same quality [Cicero]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5019	Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue

2672	Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure [Cicero]

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]