Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'fragments/reports' and 'Against the Ethicists (one book)'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

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Reasoning is impossible without a preconception [Sext.Empiricus]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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The values of variables can't determine existence, because they are just expressions [Ryle, by Quine]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

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Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it [Sext.Empiricus]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

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Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone [Sext.Empiricus]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

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If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it [Sext.Empiricus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

3029	Stilpo said if Athena is a daughter of Zeus, then a statue is only the child of a sculptor, and so is not a god [Stilpo, by Diog. Laertius]