Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed', 'What is the Basis of Moral Obligation?' and 'Proof that every set can be well-ordered'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

9254	In philosophy the truth can only be reached via the ruins of the false [Prichard]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / e. Countable infinity

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Zermelo realised that Choice would facilitate the sort of 'counting' Cantor needed [Zermelo, by Lavine]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

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Substance needs independence, unity, and stability (for individuation); also it is a subject, for predicates [Perkins]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism

9256	I see the need to pay a debt in a particular instance, and any instance will do [Prichard]

9257	The complexities of life make it almost impossible to assess morality from a universal viewpoint [Prichard]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

9255	Seeing the goodness of an effect creates the duty to produce it, not the desire [Prichard]