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All the ideas for 'The Varieties of Necessity', 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' and 'Some Main Problems of Philosophy'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

17992

The main aim of philosophy is to describe the whole Universe. [Moore,GE]

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]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 12. Feminism

21006

If women share rights with men, they will exhibit similar virtues [Wollstonecraft]

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]