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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Academica' and 'Reply to Sixth Objections'

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11 ideas

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

2661	Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument [Cicero]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth

2673	There cannot be more than one truth [Cicero]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

2669	Dialectic assumes that all statements are either true or false, but self-referential paradoxes are a big problem [Cicero]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

3644	Two things being joined together doesn't prove they are the same [Descartes]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

2664	If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us? [Cicero]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

2665	How can there be a memory of what is false? [Cicero]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism

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Every true presentation can have a false one of the same quality [Cicero]

3621	Only judgement decides which of our senses are reliable [Descartes]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue

2672	Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure [Cicero]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality

3637	Ideas in God's mind only have value if he makes it so [Descartes]