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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to De Vries' and 'Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times'

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5 ideas

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

20768

Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation

17606

Axioms reveal the underlying assumptions, and reveal relationships between different areas [Kline]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

4869	Experience does not teach us any essences of things [Spinoza]

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]