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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Ambitious, yet modest, Metaphysics' and 'Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

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Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber]

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

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Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

1554	Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence

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It is absurd to think you can change your own essence, like a garment [Nietzsche]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

1555	People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

1543	He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus]

535	The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus]