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All the ideas for 'Truth-makers', 'The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory' and 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
24084 Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
24092 I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation
10911 Part-whole is the key relation among truth-makers [Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths
10906 Moments (objects which cannot exist alone) may serve as truth-makers [Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
10909 Truth-makers cannot be the designata of the sentences they make true [Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
10907 The truth-maker for a sentence may not be unique, or may be a combination, or several separate items [Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
10912 Despite negative propositions, truthmakers are not logical complexes, but ordinary experiences [Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
10908 Correspondence has to invoke facts or states of affairs, just to serve as truth-makers [Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
24089 Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things [Nietzsche]
14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification
22137 Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 6. Theory Holism
18197 Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
24090 Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity [Nietzsche]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
24087 People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty' [Nietzsche]
24091 The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
24093 We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
24085 For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
24094 Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
24086 The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
24088 See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
24095 Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp [Nietzsche]