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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Virtues of Authenticity'', 'Sententia on 'Posterior Analytics'' and 'On Providence'

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7 ideas

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification

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The fullest knowledge places a conclusion within an accurate theory [Aquinas, by Kretzmann/Stump]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

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To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / a. External goods

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Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca]