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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Steps Towards a Constructive Nominalism' and 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

19090

If we can't check our language against experience, philosophy is just comparing beliefs and words [Rorty]

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

20768

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

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

17619

We renounce all abstract entities [Goodman/Quine]

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]