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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
20768 Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism
9224 Proceduralism offers a version of logicism with no axioms, or objects, or ontological commitment [Fine,K]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism
9222 The objects and truths of mathematics are imperative procedures for their construction [Fine,K]
9223 My Proceduralism has one simple rule, and four complex rules [Fine,K]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean
3049 The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
3549 Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture
21432 Culture is the struggle to agree what is normal [Gibson,A]