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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Methodological Reflections on Current Linguistic Theory' and 'Three theses about dispositions'

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5 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]

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour

7435	Dispositions are second-order properties, the property of having some property [Jackson/Pargetter/Prior, by Armstrong]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

15788

Syntax and semantics are indeterminate, and modern 'semantics' is a bogus subject [Quine, by Lycan]

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]