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Ideas for 'teaching', 'Evil and Omnipotence' and 'Language,Truth and Logic'

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

5896	Speak the truth, for this alone deifies man [Pythagoras, by Porphyry]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

3051	Pythagoras discovered the numerical relation of sounds on a string [Pythagoras, 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]