Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Saunders MacLane, William Shakespeare and Alcmaeon

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

8658	For there was never yet philosopher/ That could endure the toothache patiently [Shakespeare]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

22708

Good reasons must give way to better [Shakespeare]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

18189

ZFC could contain a contradiction, and it can never prove its own consistency [MacLane]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind

5987	Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / b. Volitionism

20304

The cause of my action is in my will [Shakespeare]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war

23565

Our obedience to the king erases any crimes we commit for him [Shakespeare]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

24043

Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle]