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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Handbook [Encheiridion]' and 'Hat-Tricks and Heaps'

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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]
5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')
9117 The smallest heap has four objects: three on the bottom, one on the top [Hart,WD, by Sorensen]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
23366 We see nature's will in the ways all people are the same [Epictetus]
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 / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / f. Compassion
4022 Epictetus says we should console others for misfortune, but not be moved by pity [Epictetus, by Taylor,C]
23365 If someone is weeping, you should sympathise and help, but not share his suffering [Epictetus]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
3549 Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
23368 Perhaps we should persuade culprits that their punishment is just? [Epictetus]