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All the ideas for 'On Duties ('De Officiis')', 'works' and 'A World of States of Affairs'

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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]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

4742	Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism

9497	Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

15550

Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

4743	The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

8120	Objects can be beautiful which express nothing at all, such as the rainbow [Herbart, by Tolstoy]

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

6031	The essence of propriety is consistency [Cicero]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4798	In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos]