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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Common-Sense View of Reality' and 'What Does It All Mean?'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality [Colvin]

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Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life [Colvin]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence [Colvin]

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If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object [Colvin]

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The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things [Colvin]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

4001	The meaning of a word contains all its possible uses as well as its actual ones [Nagel]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

467	A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion]