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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

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The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden]

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Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / d. Hume's Principle

8784	Neo-logicism founds arithmetic on Hume's Principle along with second-order logic [Hale/Wright]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / e. Caesar problem

8787	The Julius Caesar problem asks for a criterion for the concept of a 'number' [Hale/Wright]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

8788	Logicism is only noteworthy if logic has a privileged position in our ontology and epistemology [Hale/Wright]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism

8783	Logicism might also be revived with a quantificational approach, or an abstraction-free approach [Hale/Wright]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

8786	One first-order abstraction principle is Frege's definition of 'direction' in terms of parallel lines [Hale/Wright]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]