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All the ideas for 'Matter and Memory', 'The Empirical Stance' and 'reports'

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17 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

1765	Diogenes said avoidance of philosophy is the lack of a desire to live properly [Diogenes of Sin., by Diog. Laertius]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

12772

Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

12771

Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

12773

Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

12770

We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

21846

Bergson was a rallying point, because he emphasised becomings and multiplicities [Bergson, by Deleuze]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

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Bergson showed that memory is not after the event, but coexists with it [Bergson, by Deleuze]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique

1762	When someone denied motion, Diogenes got up and walked away [Diogenes of Sin., by Diog. Laertius]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

12769

Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / a. Explanation as pragmatic

12768

We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

7813	Cynicism was open to anyone, and needed neither education nor sophistication [Diogenes of Sin., by Grayling]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

1763	Diogenes said a plucked chicken fits Plato's definition of man [Diogenes of Sin., by Diog. Laertius]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

5071	The Cynics rejected what is conventional as irrational, and aimed to live by nature [Taylor,R on Diogenes of Sin.]

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

7812	For peace of mind, you need self-government, indifference and independence [Diogenes of Sin.]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 4. Citizenship

1764	Diogenes said he was a citizen of the world [Diogenes of Sin., by Diog. Laertius]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 2. Anarchism

5968	Diogenes masturbated in public, wishing he could get rid of hunger so easily [Diogenes of Sin., by Plutarch]

25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 3. Free speech

1766	Diogenes said that the most excellent thing among men was freedom of speech [Diogenes of Sin., by Diog. Laertius]