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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism' and 'The Logical Syntax of Language'

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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]

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence

13342

Carnap defined consequence by contradiction, but this is unintuitive and changes with substitution [Tarski on Carnap]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention

13251

Each person is free to build their own logic, just by specifying a syntax [Carnap]

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]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 11. Capitalism

22254

Economic capitalist liberty naturally leads to democratic political liberty [Novak]