Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Pragmatism in Retrospect' and 'talk'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1403	A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG]

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

20768

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

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

14796

Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry [Peirce]

15335

Peirce's theory offers anti-realist verificationism, but surely how things are is independent of us? [Horsten on Peirce]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

14795

Pragmatism is a way of establishing meanings, not a theory of metaphysics or a set of truths [Peirce]

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]