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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers II' and 'De Mundo Praesenti'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
20768 Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
16210 Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
12714 The substantial form is the principle of action or the primitive force of acting [Leibniz]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
12743 A true being must (unlike a chain) have united parts, with a substantial form as its subject [Leibniz]
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]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
9426 The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis]