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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Anselm and Actuality' and 'A Critique of Utilitarianism'

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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic

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For modality Lewis rejected boxes and diamonds, preferring worlds, and an index for the actual one [Lewis, by Stalnaker]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

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

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Maybe the unthinkable is a moral category, and considering some options is dishonourable or absurd [Williams,B]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

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Consequentialism assumes that situations can be compared [Williams,B]

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For a consequentialist massacring 7 million must be better than massacring 7 million and one [Williams,B]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

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We don't have a duty to ensure that others do their duty [Williams,B]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

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Utilitarianism cannot make any serious sense of integrity [Williams,B]