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All the ideas for 'The Varieties of Necessity', 'An Outline of Empiricism' and 'Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason

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Early empiricists said reason was just a useless concept introduced by philosophers [Galen, by Frede,M]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

9214	Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence

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It is absurd to think you can change your own essence, like a garment [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]