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All the ideas for 'Issues of Pragmaticism', 'works' and 'Ecce Homo'

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11 ideas

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

4424	A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche]

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

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For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / h. Reals from Cauchy

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Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro]

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 / 2. Values / i. Self-interest

2886	The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck

4426	A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / f. Compassion

4425	The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues [Nietzsche]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self

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To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence

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Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching

2889	One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [Nietzsche]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

2887	I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct [Nietzsche]