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All the ideas for 'General Facts,Phys Necessity, and Metaph of Time', 'Nietzsche's System' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason

6855	Interesting philosophers hardly every give you explicitly valid arguments [Martin,M]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson]

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Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson]

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Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson]

2. Reason / E. Argument / 1. Argument

6856	Valid arguments can be rejected by challenging the premises or presuppositions [Martin,M]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 3. Truthmaker Maximalism

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The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

6857	An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

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Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

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A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson]