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Ideas for 'Writing the Book of the World', 'The Sovereignty of Good' and 'Abstract Objects'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

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An unexamined life can be virtuous [Murdoch]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

22337

Philosophy must keep returning to the beginning [Murdoch]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

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Your metaphysics is 'cheating' if your ontology won't support the beliefs you accept [Sider]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Philosophy moves continually between elaborate theories and the obvious facts [Murdoch]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

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Metaphysics is not about what exists or is true or essential; it is about the structure of reality [Sider]

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Extreme doubts about metaphysics also threaten to undermine the science of unobservables [Sider]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

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It seems unlikely that the way we speak will give insights into the universe [Sider]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

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Conceptual analysts trust particular intuitions much more than general ones [Sider]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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Questions about objects are questions about certain non-vacuous singular terms [Hale]