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All the ideas for 'works (all lost)', 'A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori' and 'The Roots of Romanticism'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought
7662 Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin]
5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 1. Overview of Logic
9358 There are several logics, none of which will ever derive falsehoods from truth [Lewis,CI]
5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle
9357 Excluded middle is just our preference for a simplified dichotomy in experience [Lewis,CI]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names
9364 Names represent a uniformity in experience, or they name nothing [Lewis,CI]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
9362 Necessary truths are those we will maintain no matter what [Lewis,CI]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 7. A Priori from Convention
9365 We can maintain a priori principles come what may, but we can also change them [Lewis,CI]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection
9361 We have to separate the mathematical from physical phenomena by abstraction [Lewis,CI]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism
7665 Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
7676 If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty
7664 The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
7677 Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
9363 Science seeks classification which will discover laws, essences, and predictions [Lewis,CI]
29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 2. Judaism
7663 Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin]