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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'The Will to Believe' and 'Reals by Abstraction'

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4 ideas

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

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

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

10632

The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by 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]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

6570	Imagine millions made happy on condition that one person suffers endless lonely torture [James]