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Ideas for 'works', 'Substitutional Classes and Relations' and 'Language,Truth and Logic'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

23890

For Plato true wisdom is supernatural [Plato, by Weil]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

3060	Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

5196	Philosophy is a department of logic [Ayer]

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

5189	Philosophers should abandon speculation, as philosophy is wholly critical [Ayer]

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

7919	Humeans rejected the a priori synthetic, and so rejected even Kantian metaphysics [Ayer, by Macdonald,C]

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

5195	Critics say analysis can only show the parts, and not their distinctive configuration [Ayer]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

5179	Philosophy deals with the questions that scientists do not wish to handle [Ayer]