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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Papers of 1918' and 'The Decline of the West'

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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]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

22307

Propositions don't name facts, because two opposed propositions can match one fact [Russell]

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

20948

Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie]