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All the ideas for 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong', 'fragments/reports' and 'The Will to Believe'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

12270

Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

6570	Imagine millions made happy on condition that one person suffers endless lonely torture [James]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

3059	There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void

5100	The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe

456	Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus]