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All the ideas for 'Cosmic Apprentice', 'De Veritate (On Truth)' and '64: Gryllus - on Rationality in Animals'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

16567

Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything [Sagan,D]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth

4748	Anselm of Canterbury identified truth with God [Anselm, by Engel]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

1477	Being manly and brave is the result of convention, not of human nature [Plutarch]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / e. Role of pleasure

1478	Animals don't value pleasure, as they cease sexual intercourse after impregnation [Plutarch]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality

1479	Animals have not been led into homosexuality, because they value pleasure very little [Plutarch]