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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Rationality' and 'Aristotle and the Metaphysics'

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7 ideas

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]

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]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

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The ancient Memorists said virtually all types of thinking could be done simply by memory [Sorabji]

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Stoics say true memory needs reflection and assent, but animals only have perceptual recognition [Sorabji]

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

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