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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Nietzsche's System' and 'Philosophical Implications of Mathematical logic'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson]

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Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson]

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Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

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Logic is highly general truths abstracted from reality [Russell, by Glock]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

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It is good to generalise truths as much as possible [Russell]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

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Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

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A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson]