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All the ideas for 'Against the Logicians (two books)', 'fragments/reports' and 'The Mind and the Soul'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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Ordinary speech is not exact about what is true; we say we are digging a well before the well exists [Sext.Empiricus]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

9295	Not only substances have attributes; events, actions, states and qualities can have them [Teichmann]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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Some properties are inseparable from a thing, such as the length, breadth and depth of a body [Sext.Empiricus]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification

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Fools, infants and madmen may speak truly, but do not know [Sext.Empiricus]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

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Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them [Sext.Empiricus]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism

9293	Body-spirit interaction ought to result in losses and increases of energy in the material world [Teichmann]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / b. Empirical concepts

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We can only dream of a winged man if we have experienced men and some winged thing [Sext.Empiricus]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

467	A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

9292	The Soul has no particular capacity (in the way thinking belongs to the mind) [Teichmann]

9294	No individuating marks distinguish between Souls [Teichmann]