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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Some Puzzles of Ground' and 'Difference and Repetition'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May]

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 / E. Nonclassical Logics / 3. Many-Valued Logic

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Strong Kleene disjunction just needs one true disjunct; Weak needs the other to have some value [Fine,K]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

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Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable [Deleuze]

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'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference' [Deleuze]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

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Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May]

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Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

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Formal grounding needs transitivity of grounding, no self-grounding, and the existence of both parties [Fine,K]

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]