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All the ideas for 'Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root'', 'Phenomenology of Perception' and 'Paradoxes of the Infinite'

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10 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason

4187	'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

9987	An aggregate in which order does not matter I call a 'set' [Bolzano]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

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A truly infinite quantity does not need to be a variable [Bolzano]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

4192	All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

4190	All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito

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Consciousness is based on 'I can', not on 'I think' [Merleau-Ponty]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

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The mind does not unite perceptions, because they flow into one another [Merleau-Ponty]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self

4191	What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'

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The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time

4189	Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer]