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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'The Nature of Rationality' and 'works'

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10 ideas

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

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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

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I do not care if my trivial beliefs are false, and I have no interest in many truths [Nozick]

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

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Maybe James was depicting the value of truth, and not its nature [Nozick]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

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For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / h. Reals from Cauchy

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Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

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Rationality is normally said to concern either giving reasons, or reliability [Nozick]

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In the instrumental view of rationality it only concerns means, and not ends [Nozick]

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Is it rational to believe a truth which leads to permanent misery? [Nozick]

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Rationality needs some self-consciousness, to also evaluate how we acquired our reasons [Nozick]