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All the ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'The Approach to Metaphysics' and 'Freedom and Action'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

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Metaphysics rests on observations, but ones so common we hardly notice them [Peirce]

20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 1. Action Theory

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If a desire leads to a satisfactory result by an odd route, the causal theory looks wrong [Chisholm]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / c. Agent causation

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There has to be a brain event which is not caused by another event, but by the agent [Chisholm]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

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'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red' [Geach, by Foot]