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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Mental Models' and 'Goodness and Choice'

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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]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 7. Scientific Models

3214	The models we use in reasoning may be more like perceptions than like language [Johnson-Laird]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function

22381

Being a good father seems to depend on intentions, rather than actual abilities [Foot]

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 / 3. Natural Function

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Some words, such as 'knife', have a meaning which involves its function [Foot]