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All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'On Recent German Literature. Fragments' and 'Is There a Marxist Doctrine?'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

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Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil]

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

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In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war

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When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil]