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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Grundlagen (Foundations of Theory of Manifolds)' and 'Making Things Happen'

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6 ideas

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

20768

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

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

15946

Cantor developed sets from a progression into infinity by addition, multiplication and exponentiation [Cantor, by Lavine]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers

15911

Ordinals are generated by endless succession, followed by a limit ordinal [Cantor, by Lavine]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

14367

An explanation is a causal graph [Woodward,J, by Strevens]

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]