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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Causation in a Physical World' and 'Zettel'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

2626	A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

6569	'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification

3790	Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

8404	Explain single events by general rules, or vice versa, or probability explains both, or they are unconnected [Field,H]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8401	Physical laws are largely time-symmetric, so they make a poor basis for directional causation [Field,H]

8400	Identifying cause and effect is not just conventional; we explain later events by earlier ones [Field,H]

8402	The only reason for adding the notion of 'cause' to fundamental physics is directionality [Field,H]