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All the ideas for 'The Source of Necessity', 'Letters to Russell' and 'The DhammaPada'

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16 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

7893	Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

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I wish to go straight from cardinals to reals (as ratios), leaving out the rationals [Frege]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

18166

The loss of my Rule V seems to make foundations for arithmetic impossible [Frege]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

18269

Logical objects are extensions of concepts, or ranges of values of functions [Frege]

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

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Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale]

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Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale]

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The explanation of a necessity can be by a truth (which may only happen to be a necessary truth) [Hale]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention

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If necessity rests on linguistic conventions, those are contingent, so there is no necessity [Hale]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts

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Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

7898	The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

7894	Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / f. Dangers of pleasure

7899	Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

7896	The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)]

7897	The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship

7895	Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7900	Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)]