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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Killing and Letting Die' and 'Grundlagen (Foundations of Theory of Manifolds)'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1403	A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

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Cantor developed sets from a progression into infinity by addition, multiplication and exponentiation [Cantor, by Lavine]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers

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Ordinals are generated by endless succession, followed by a limit ordinal [Cantor, by Lavine]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions

4692	It is not true that killing and allowing to die (or acts and omissions) are morally indistinguishable [Foot]

4694	Making a runaway tram kill one person instead of five is diverting a fatal sequence, not initiating one [Foot]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

4693	The right of non-interference (with a 'negative duty'), and the right to goods/services ('positive') [Foot]