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All the ideas for 'works (all lost)', 'A Problem about Substitutional Quantification?' and 'Deriving Kripkean Claims with Abstract Objects'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

1749	If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

10792

The substitutional quantifier is not in competition with the standard interpretation [Kripke, by Marcus (Barcan)]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta

10558

Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

10557

Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / h. Against ethics

3558	Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5835	The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 3. Cyrenaic School

3018	People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius]

1751	Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime

1755	Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius]