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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Contextualist Solutions to Scepticism' and 'New system of communication of substances'

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10 ideas

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

20768

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

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

13169

I call Aristotle's entelechies 'primitive forces', which originate activity [Leibniz]

13168

My formal unifying atoms are substantial forms, which are forces like appetites [Leibniz]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

13170

The analysis of things leads to atoms of substance, which found both composition and action [Leibniz]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

13171

Substance must necessarily involve progress and change [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

19508

Contextualism needs a semantics for knowledge sentences that are partly indexical [Schiffer,S]

19509

The indexical aspect of contextual knowledge might be hidden, or it might be in what 'know' means [Schiffer,S]

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]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

13167

We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz]