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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Aristotle's Theory of Substance' and 'What is innate and why'

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8 ideas

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

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

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties

12354

A 'categorial' property is had by virtue of being or having an item from a category [Wedin]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

12358

Substance is a principle and a kind of cause [Wedin]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

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Form explains why some matter is of a certain kind, and that is explanatory bedrock [Wedin]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

2605	If everything uses mentalese, ALL concepts must be innate! [Putnam]

2606	No machine language can express generalisations [Putnam]

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]