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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little' and 'On Fate ('De fato')'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason

9808	Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

9812	In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved [Badiou]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

9813	Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite [Badiou]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

9809	Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

9811	It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

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Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

9814	All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

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If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished [Cicero]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1558	Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus]