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All the ideas for 'The Birth of Tragedy', 'On the Cosmos (lost)' and 'Has Philosophy Lost Contact with People?'

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10 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 / 1. Philosophy

7848	Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]

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]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification

472	No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

1518	Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus]

1519	Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus]

473	There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited

469	Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical

476	Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

1787	Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius]