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All the ideas for 'works', 'Mathematics and the Metaphysicians' and 'Herculaneum Papyrus'

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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 4. Paradoxes in Logic / a. Achilles paradox
7557 To solve Zeno's paradox, reject the axiom that the whole has more terms than the parts [Russell]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
10059 In mathematic we are ignorant of both subject-matter and truth [Russell]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / b. Mark of the infinite
7556 A collection is infinite if you can remove some terms without diminishing its number [Russell]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / d. Cause of beliefs
20945 Belief is no more rational than is tasting and smelling [Hamann]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
7554 Self-evidence is often a mere will-o'-the-wisp [Russell]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
22241 Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
7666 God is not a mathematician, but a poet [Hamann, by Berlin]