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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Mental Life of Some Machines' and 'The Theory of Objects'

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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]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 6. Free Logic

8250	So-called 'free logic' operates without existence assumptions [Meinong, by George/Van Evra]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

8719	There can be impossible and contradictory objects, if they can have properties [Meinong, by Friend]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought

8971	There are objects of which it is true that there are no such objects [Meinong]

8718	Meinong says an object need not exist, but must only have properties [Meinong, by Friend]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

7756	Meinong said all objects of thought (even self-contradictions) have some sort of being [Meinong, by Lycan]

15781

The objects of knowledge are far more numerous than objects which exist [Meinong]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]

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]