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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Modes of Extension: comment on Fine' and 'I.39 On Solitude'

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

20768

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

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

18883

Any equivalence relation among similar things allows the creation of an abstractum [Simons]

18884

Abstraction is usually seen as producing universals and numbers, but it can do more [Simons]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure

22269

We must fight fiercely to hang on to the few pleasures which survive into old age [Montaigne]

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]