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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Significance of the Kripkean Nec A Posteriori' and 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 5. Modern Philosophy / c. Modern philosophy mid-period
13966 Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour [Soames]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
13974 If philosophy is analysis of meaning, available to all competent speakers, what's left for philosophers? [Soames]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
24084 Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
24092 I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive [Nietzsche]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
24089 Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things [Nietzsche]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
13969 Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds [Soames]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention
13973 A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source [Soames]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds
13968 Kripkean possible worlds are abstract maximal states in which the real world could have been [Soames]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
24090 Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity [Nietzsche]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics
13972 Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity [Soames]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
24087 People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty' [Nietzsche]
24091 The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
24093 We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
24085 For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
24094 Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
24086 The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
24088 See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
13304 Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
24095 Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp [Nietzsche]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure
20820 Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]