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All the ideas for 'Ambitious, yet modest, Metaphysics', 'Aristotle on Friendship' and 'Substances without Substrata'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

16415

Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

16413

Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

16416

The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

6316	We translate in a way that makes the largest possible number of statements true [Wilson,NL]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship

2685	The Greek 'philia' covers all good and fruitful relationships [Cooper,JM]