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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'Sophistical Refutations' and 'Postscripts on supervenience'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

2676	Didactic argument starts from the principles of the subject, not from the opinions of the learner [Aristotle]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason

2675	Reasoning is a way of making statements which makes them lead on to other statements [Aristotle]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

2677	Dialectic aims to start from generally accepted opinions, and lead to a contradiction [Aristotle]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 3. Eristic

2674	Competitive argument aims at refutation, fallacy, paradox, solecism or repetition [Aristotle]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / d. and

16967

'Are Coriscus and Callias at home?' sounds like a single question, but it isn't [Aristotle]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

13745

Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim]

13746

Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 10. Essence as Species

16149

Generic terms like 'man' are not substances, but qualities, relations, modes or some such thing [Aristotle]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

11840

Only if two things are identical do they have the same attributes [Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

5994	Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]