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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'The Fragmentation of Value' and 'Process and Reality'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy
7719 European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
21959 Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification
10656 With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
15389 In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
21958 Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
3284 There is no one theory of how to act (or what to believe) [Nagel]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
15247 Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space
16962 Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine]