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All the ideas for 'That Politics may be reduced to a Science', 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow' and 'New Proof of Possibility of Well-Ordering'

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5 ideas

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / a. Nature of Judgement

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We should judge principles by the science, not science by some fixed principles [Zermelo]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship

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Friendship without community spirit misses out on the main part of virtue [Hume]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 3. Constitutions

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It would be absurd if even a free constitution did not impose restraints, for the public good [Hume]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / d. Elites

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Nobility either share in the power of the whole, or they compose the power of the whole [Hume]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]