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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Prescriptivism' and 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics'

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6 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]

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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

2854	Prescriptivism says 'ought' without commitment to act is insincere, or weakly used [Hooker,B]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule

2856	Universal moral judgements imply the Golden Rule ('do as you would be done by') [Hooker,B]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]