Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Absurd' and 'Reply to Sixth Objections'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
3269 If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
3644 Two things being joined together doesn't prove they are the same [Descartes]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification
3270 Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism
3621 Only judgement decides which of our senses are reliable [Descartes]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
3268 If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel]
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]
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]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality
3637 Ideas in God's mind only have value if he makes it so [Descartes]