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All the ideas for 'works', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'Of Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

5021	An idea is analysed perfectly when it is shown a priori that it is possible [Leibniz]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

6859	Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 4. Fuzzy Logic

6862	Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic

6858	Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance

6863	Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

6861	What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson]

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

6860	How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / d. Rational foundations

5020	Our thoughts are either dependent, or self-evident. All thoughts seem to end in the self-evident [Leibniz]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

8638	Thomae's idea of abstract from peculiarities gives a general concept, and leaves the peculiarities [Frege on Thomae]

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

5019	Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz]