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All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'Self-Reliance' and 'Has Philosophy Lost Contact with People?'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

9764	Inspiration and social improvement need wisdom, but not professional philosophy [Quine]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

9763	For a good theory of the world, we must focus on our flabby foundational vocabulary [Quine]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

6558	A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds [Emerson]

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]