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All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Zettel' and 'Academica'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

2626	A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

2661	Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument [Cicero]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth

2673	There cannot be more than one truth [Cicero]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

2669	Dialectic assumes that all statements are either true or false, but self-referential paradoxes are a big problem [Cicero]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

6569	'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

2664	If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us? [Cicero]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

2665	How can there be a memory of what is false? [Cicero]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification

3790	Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism

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Every true presentation can have a false one of the same quality [Cicero]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

3102	Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue

2672	Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure [Cicero]