Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'On Relations of Universals and Particulars' and 'The Absurd'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
3269 If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16045 General facts supervene on particular facts, but cannot be inferred from them [Russell, by Bennett,K]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes
14327 Trope theorists cannot explain how tropes resemble each other [Russell, by Mumford]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification
3270 Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
7667 There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
3268 If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel]