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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The New Organon' and 'Introduction to a Secret Encyclopaedia'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division

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Analysing right down to primitive concepts seems beyond our powers [Leibniz]

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

20768

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

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

5022	We hold a proposition true if we are ready to follow it, and can't see any objections [Leibniz]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

16639

Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

16033

There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

21950

Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]

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]