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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Logicism in the 21st Century' and 'The Decline of the West'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

291	Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / d. Hume's Principle

8784	Neo-logicism founds arithmetic on Hume's Principle along with second-order logic [Hale/Wright]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / e. Caesar problem

8787	The Julius Caesar problem asks for a criterion for the concept of a 'number' [Hale/Wright]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

8788	Logicism is only noteworthy if logic has a privileged position in our ontology and epistemology [Hale/Wright]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism

8783	Logicism might also be revived with a quantificational approach, or an abstraction-free approach [Hale/Wright]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

8786	One first-order abstraction principle is Frege's definition of 'direction' in terms of parallel lines [Hale/Wright]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

293	Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

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Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie]