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All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'Of Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking' and 'The Mozi'

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8 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]
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]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
23395 Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
5019 Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule
23394 If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability
23396 Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi]
23397 Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
9425 Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]