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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Rechnungsmethoden (dissertation)' and 'Letters to Russell'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

7085	The main problem of philosophy is what can and cannot be thought and expressed [Wittgenstein, by Grayling]

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

20768

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

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers

18256

Quantity is inconceivable without the idea of addition [Frege]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 2. Intuition of Mathematics

9831	Geometry appeals to intuition as the source of its axioms [Frege]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms

23463

Atomic facts correspond to true elementary propositions [Wittgenstein]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

23490

A thought is mental constituents that relate to reality as words do [Wittgenstein]

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]