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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Quodlibeta' and 'Aristotle and the Metaphysics'

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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]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions

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The Pythagoreans were the first to offer definitions [Politis, by Politis]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth

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'True of' is applicable to things, while 'true' is applicable to words [Politis]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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Maybe 'What is being? is confusing because we can't ask what non-being is like [Politis]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

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Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three [Henry of Ghent]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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The only reality in the category of Relation is things from another category [Henry of Ghent]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Accidents are diminished beings, because they are dispositions of substance (unqualified being) [Henry of Ghent]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

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Necessary truths can be two-way relational, where essential truths are one-way or intrinsic [Politis]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental! [Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard]

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

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