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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Posthumous notes' and 'Substitutional Classes and Relations'

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8 ideas

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

20768

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

2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

21560

Any linguistic expression may lack meaning when taken out of context [Russell]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes

21561

'The number one is bald' or 'the number one is fond of cream cheese' are meaningless [Russell]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / p. Axiom of Reducibility

18130

Axiom of Reducibility: there is always a function of the lowest possible order in a given level [Russell, by Bostock]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

21562

There is no complexity without relations, so no propositions, and no truth [Russell]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

21971

Transcendental philosophy is the subject becoming the originator of unified reality [Kant]

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]