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Ideas for 'What is Good?', 'An Essay in Aesthetics' and 'Vagueness and Contradiction'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 3. Earlier European Philosophy / c. Later medieval philosophy

7823	Lucretius was rediscovered in 1417 [Grayling]
	Full Idea: Lucretius's 'De Rerum Natura' was rediscovered in 1417, after languishing forgotten for six centuries.
	From: A.C. Grayling (What is Good? [2003], Ch.5)
	A reaction: A wonder. Is it the greatest book of the ancient world - because it partially preserves the lost philosophy of great Democritus?

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis

9136	The paradox of analysis says that any conceptual analysis must be either trivial or false [Sorensen]
	Full Idea: The paradox of analysis says if a conceptual analysis states exactly what the original statement says, then the analysis is trivial; if it says something different from the original, then the analysis is mistaken. All analyses are trivial or false.
	From: Roy Sorensen (Vagueness and Contradiction [2001], 8.5)
	A reaction: [source is G.E. Moore] Good analyses typically give explanations, or necessary and sufficient conditions, or inferential relations. At their most trivial they at least produce a more profound dictionary than your usual lexicographer. Not guilty.