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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Elimination of Metaphysics by Analysis of Language' and 'fragments/reports'

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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]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

21336

Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Crates of Thebes, by Plutarch]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

1767	Everyone should study philosophy until they see all people in the same light [Crates of Thebes, by Diog. Laertius]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

16252

Metaphysics uses empty words, or just produces pseudo-statements [Carnap]

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

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