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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'The Logical Form of Action Sentences' and 'Logological Fragments II'

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10 ideas

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

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

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

19588

The highest aim of philosophy is to combine all philosophies into a unity [Novalis]

19598

Philosophy relies on our whole system of learning, and can thus never be complete [Novalis]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

19586

Philosophers feed on problems, hoping they are digestible, and spiced with paradox [Novalis]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

19587

Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system [Novalis]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 8. Logic of Mathematics

19597

Logic (the theory of relations) should be applied to mathematics [Novalis]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

7771	We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan]

8860	Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories

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If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider]

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

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