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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Varignon' and 'In Defense of a Dogma'

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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]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy

7319	If we give up synonymy, we have to give up significance, meaning and sense [Grice/Strawson]

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]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

19414

Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz]