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All the ideas for 'The Life of Reason', 'Anthropological Studies of Classification' and 'How free does the will need to be?'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

8000	He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories

10496

Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen]

10497

In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

10495

Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism

10498

Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

20168

Blame usually has no effect if the recipient thinks it unjustified [Williams,B]

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Blame partly rests on the fiction that blamed agents always know their obligations [Williams,B]