Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Definition of Good', 'Letters to Russell' and 'Personal Identity'

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8 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

18253

I wish to go straight from cardinals to reals (as ratios), leaving out the rationals [Frege]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

18166

The loss of my Rule V seems to make foundations for arithmetic impossible [Frege]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

18269

Logical objects are extensions of concepts, or ranges of values of functions [Frege]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations

3539	Personal identity is just causally related mental states [Parfit, by Maslin]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity

1393	One of my future selves will not necessarily be me [Parfit]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 4. Split Consciousness

1392	If we split like amoeba, we would be two people, neither of them being us [Parfit]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 5. Concerns of the Self

1391	Concern for our own lives isn't the source of belief in identity, it is the result of it [Parfit]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism

18671

The ground for an attitude is not a thing's 'goodness', but its concrete characteristics [Ewing]