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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Rationality and Goodness' and 'Commentary on Euclid's 'Elements''

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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

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Geometrical proofs do not show causes, as when we prove a triangle contains two right angles [Proclus]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9569	The origin of geometry started in sensation, then moved to calculation, and then to reason [Proclus]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique

23692

Good and bad are a matter of actions, not of internal dispositions [Foot]

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]