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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Letters to Samuel Masson' and 'Much Ado About Nothing'

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3 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
For there was never yet philosopher/ That could endure the toothache patiently [Shakespeare]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite
I don't admit infinite numbers, and consider infinitesimals to be useful fictions [Leibniz]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention
By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]