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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Ethical consistency' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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5 ideas

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

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

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / a. Dilemmas

22455

Many ethical theories neglect the power of regretting the ought not acted upon [Williams,B]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

22453

Moral conflicts have a different feeling and structure from belief conflicts [Williams,B, by Foot]

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

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

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]