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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Toward a Philosophy of History' and 'Concepts without Boundaries'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)

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For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

8983	If 'red' is vague, then membership of the set of red things is vague, so there is no set of red things [Sainsbury]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation

8986	We should abandon classifying by pigeon-holes, and classify around paradigms [Sainsbury]

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

8982	Vague concepts are concepts without boundaries [Sainsbury]

8984	If concepts are vague, people avoid boundaries, can't spot them, and don't want them [Sainsbury]

8985	Boundaryless concepts tend to come in pairs, such as child/adult, hot/cold [Sainsbury]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett]