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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Virtues of Authenticity'', 'Manuscript remains' and 'A New Kind of Science'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

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Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

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At one level maths and nature are very similar, suggesting some deeper origin [Wolfram]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms

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Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

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Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

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As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space

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Space and its contents seem to be one stuff - so space is the only existing thing [Wolfram]