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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Rationality and Goodness' and 'Essay on a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances'

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

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

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

14280

The probability of two events is the first probability times the second probability assuming the first [Bayes]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique

23692

Good and bad are a matter of actions, not of internal dispositions [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]