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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Fragments on My Philosophical Development' and 'Frege on Apriority (with ps)'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

16901

The equivalent algebra model of geometry loses some essential spatial meaning [Burge]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / d. Peano arithmetic

16902

Peano arithmetic requires grasping 0 as a primitive number [Burge]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

3013	Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

16892

Is apriority predicated mainly of truths and proofs, or of human cognition? [Burge]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / i. Absolute virtues

19458

Egoism is the only evil, love the only good; genuine love produces all the other virtues [Feuerbach]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1494	Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

1713	Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

1742	Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]