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All the ideas for 'The Varieties of Necessity', 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82' and 'Realistic Rationalism'

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24 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
2516 Most of philosophy begins where science leaves off [Katz]
2510 Traditionally philosophy is an a priori enquiry into general truths about reality [Katz]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
24084 Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
24092 I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive [Nietzsche]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism
2521 'Real' maths objects have no causal role, no determinate reference, and no abstract/concrete distinction [Katz]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
24089 Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things [Nietzsche]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
9216 Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic
2513 We don't have a clear enough sense of meaning to pronounce some sentences meaningless or just analytic [Katz]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
2522 Experience cannot teach us why maths and logic are necessary [Katz]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony
9214 Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
24090 Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity [Nietzsche]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
2517 Structuralists see meaning behaviouristically, and Chomsky says nothing about it [Katz]
19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference
2519 It is generally accepted that sense is defined as the determiner of reference [Katz]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
2520 Sense determines meaning and synonymy, not referential properties like denotation and truth [Katz]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense
2518 Sentences are abstract types (like musical scores), not individual tokens [Katz]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
24087 People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty' [Nietzsche]
24091 The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
24093 We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
24085 For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
24094 Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
24086 The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
24088 See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
24095 Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp [Nietzsche]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
9215 Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K]