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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'How to Make our Ideas Clear' and 'fragments/reports'

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9 ideas

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth
7661 Truth is the opinion fated to be ultimately agreed by all investigators [Peirce]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility
5998 From the necessity of the past we can infer the impossibility of what never happens [Diod.Cronus, by White,MJ]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
20832 The Master Argument seems to prove that only what will happen is possible [Diod.Cronus, by Epictetus]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals
14304 Conditionals are true when the antecedent is true, and the consequent has to be true [Diod.Cronus]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
19089 Our whole conception of an object is its possible practical consequences [Peirce]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / b. Elements of beliefs
7660 We are aware of beliefs, they appease our doubts, and they are rules of action, or habits [Peirce]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
14906 Non-positivist verificationism says only take a hypothesis seriously if it is scientifically based and testable [Ladyman/Ross on Peirce]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions
6024 Thought is unambiguous, and you should stick to what the speaker thinks they are saying [Diod.Cronus, by Gellius]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
7903 The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]