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All the ideas for 'On Duties ('De Officiis')', 'Tropes' and 'Events and Reification'

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8 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]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

10467

Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John]

10464

A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John]

10465

Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

10466

Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John]

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

6031	The essence of propriety is consistency [Cicero]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

10370

Causal relata are individuated by coarse spacetime regions [Quine, by Schaffer,J]