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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Duties ('De Officiis')' and 'The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

21405

Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral [Cicero, by Long]

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

20871

Unfortunately we choose a way of life before we are old enough to think clearly [Cicero]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / j. Axiom of Choice IX

18270

Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic

18263

The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

18272

Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

18266

Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

6031	The essence of propriety is consistency [Cicero]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time

18279

Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa]