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All the ideas for 'Commentary on 'De Anima'', 'What is so bad about Contradictions?' and 'Nietzsche's System'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson]

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Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson]

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Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9123	Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

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The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

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Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

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A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson]