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All the ideas for 'works', 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition' and 'The Logical Syntax of Language'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence

13342

Carnap defined consequence by contradiction, but this is unintuitive and changes with substitution [Tarski on Carnap]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention

13251

Each person is free to build their own logic, just by specifying a syntax [Carnap]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

3488	Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

5689	Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions

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Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

22344

Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch]