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All the ideas for 'Issues of Pragmaticism', 'City of God' and 'Human Nature'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour

6211	Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes]

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

3912	I must exist in order to be mistaken, so that even if I am mistaken, I can't be wrong about my own existence [Augustine]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

6213	A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism

6683	The contact of spirit and body is utterly amazing, and incomprehensible [Augustine]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

6208	Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

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The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

6209	There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness

6210	Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality

6212	Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes]