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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Human Nature' and 'Rechnungsmethoden (dissertation)'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour

6211	Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers

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Quantity is inconceivable without the idea of addition [Frege]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 2. Intuition of Mathematics

9831	Geometry appeals to intuition as the source of its axioms [Frege]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

6213	A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

6208	Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes]

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

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

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

6209	There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness

6210	Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality

6212	Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes]