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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'On the Essence of Human Freedom' and 'Quine on Quantifying In'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

12220	Is it the sentence-token or the sentence-type that has a logical form? [Fine,K]
	Full Idea: Do we attribute a logical form to a sentence token because it is a token of a type with that form, or do we attribute a logical form to a sentence type because it is a type of a token with that form?
	From: Kit Fine (Quine on Quantifying In [1990], p.110)
	A reaction: Since I believe in propositions (as the unambiguous thought that lies behind a sentence), I take it that logical form concerns propositions, though strict logicians don't like this, for fear that logic spills into psychology.

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

12222	Substitutional quantification is referential quantification over expressions [Fine,K]
	Full Idea: Substitutional quantification may be regarded as referential quantification over expressions.
	From: Kit Fine (Quine on Quantifying In [1990], p.124)
	A reaction: This is an illuminating gloss. Does such quantification involve some ontological commitment to expressions? I feel an infinite regress looming.

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / g. Will to power

20956	Ultimately, all being is willing. The nature of primal being is the same as the nature of willing [Schelling]
	Full Idea: In the last and highest instance there is no other being but willing. Willing is primal being, and all the predicates of primal being only fit willing: groundlessness, eternity, being independent of time, self-affirmation.
	From: Friedrich Schelling (On the Essence of Human Freedom [1809], I.7.350), quoted by Andrew Bowie - Introduction to German Philosophy 5 'Reason'
	A reaction: Insofar as this says that 'primal being' must be active in character, I love this idea. Not the rest of the idea though! Bowie says this essay clearly influenced Schopenhauer. It looks as if Nietzsche must be read it too.

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]
	Full Idea: The six perfections are of giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom.
	From: Nagarjuna (Mahaprajnaparamitashastra [c.120], 88)
	A reaction: What is 'morality', if giving is not part of it? I like patience and vigour being two of the virtues, which immediately implies an Aristotelian mean (which is always what is 'appropriate').