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All the ideas for 'The Intelligence of Evil', 'Theological and other works' and 'Fact, Fiction and Forecast (4th ed)'

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22 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
7973 There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
7975 The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality [Baudrillard]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason
7986 Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones [Baudrillard]
2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
7982 Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled [Baudrillard]
5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention
12394 If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
7974 Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
7987 Nothing is true, but everything is exact [Baudrillard]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
15312 We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
14292 Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman]
14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem
18749 Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew]
17646 Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
7978 There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life [Baudrillard]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art
7980 In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object [Baudrillard]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
7983 Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune [Baudrillard]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / c. Despotism
7981 Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them [Baudrillard]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / d. Representative democracy
7976 People like democracy because it means they can avoid power [Baudrillard]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism
7977 Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
7979 The arrival of the news media brought history to an end [Baudrillard]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide
7984 Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities
4794 We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter
15311 Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / d. Pascal's Wager
7985 Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God [Baudrillard]