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Ideas for 'works', 'The Possibility of Metaphysics' and 'The Road to Serfdom'

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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 / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

16414

Science needs metaphysics to weed out its presuppositions [Lowe, by Hofweber]

9414	Metaphysics is the mapping of possibilities [Lowe, by Mumford]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

8282	Only metaphysics can decide whether identity survives through change [Lowe]

16127

Metaphysics tells us what there could be, rather than what there is [Lowe]