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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Nonexistent Objects' and 'Repetition'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

22094	Subjective truth can only be sustained by repetition [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
	Full Idea: If subjective truth is to be more than momentary, it has to be repeated continually.
	From: report of Søren Kierkegaard (Repetition [1843]) by Clare Carlisle - Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed 4
	A reaction: This might apply to more traditional concepts of truth, if they are to be part of life, rather than remaining in books.

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

18948	There is an object for every set of properties (some of which exist, and others don't) [Parsons,T, by Sawyer]
	Full Idea: According to Terence Parsons, there is an object corresponding to every set of properties. To some of those sets of properties there corresponds an object that exists, and to others there corresponds an object that does not exist (a nonexistent object).
	From: report of Terence Parsons (Nonexistent Objects [1980]) by Sarah Sawyer - Empty Names 5
	A reaction: This I take to be the main source of the modern revival of Meinong's notorious view of objects (attacked by Russell). I always find the thought 'a round square is square' to be true, and in need of a truthmaker. But must a round square be non-triangular?

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').

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence

22093	Life is a repetition when what has been now becomes [Kierkegaard]
	Full Idea: When one says that life is a repetition one affirms that existence which has been now becomes.
	From: Søren Kierkegaard (Repetition [1843], p.49), quoted by Clare Carlisle - Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed 4
	A reaction: Not sure I understand this, but it seems very close to Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence.