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3 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

16010	While faith is a passion (as Kierkegaard says), wisdom is passionless [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Culture and Value [1945], 53e)
	A reaction: [Idea from SY] Personally I don't agree that wisdom is passionless. At the very least, Aristotle allows the wise person to be appropriately angry. [PG]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

13536	Skolem did not believe in the existence of uncountable sets [Skolem]
	Full Idea: Skolem did not believe in the existence of uncountable sets.
	From: Thoralf Skolem (works [1920], 5.3)
	A reaction: Kit Fine refers somewhere to 'unrepentent Skolemites' who still hold this view.

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

16755	The possible Aristotelian view that forms are real and active principles is clearly wrong [Fine,K, by Pasnau]
	Full Idea: Aristotle seems to have a possible basis for the belief [in individual forms], namely that forms are real and active principles in the world, which is denied by any right-minded modern.
	From: report of Kit Fine (A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form [1994], p.19) by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 24.3 n8
	A reaction: Pasnau says this is the view of forms promoted by the scholastics, whereas Aristotle's own view should be understood as 'metaphysical'.