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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Russell's Ontological Development' and 'The New Organon'

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9 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]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

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Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

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Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

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There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

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Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

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Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine]

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Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine]

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]