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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Tarski on Truth and Logical Consequence' and 'Journals'

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6 ideas

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

20768

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

3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / c. Meta-language for truth

19323

'Snow is white' depends on meaning; whether snow is white depends on snow [Etchemendy]

3. Truth / G. Axiomatic Truth / 1. Axiomatic Truth

19137

We can get a substantive account of Tarski's truth by adding primitive 'true' to the object language [Etchemendy]

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]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles

16707

Cold and hot are the swiftness and slowness of corpuscular motion [Beeckman]