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

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

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / h. System S5

7791	The simplest of the logics based on possible worlds is Lewis's S5 [Lewis,CI, by Girle]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

3663	How can you contemplate Platonic entities without causal transactions with them? [Putnam]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Equating necessity with informal provability is the S4 conception of necessity [Lewis,CI, by Read]

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]