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All the ideas for 'Gilles Deleuze', 'Commentary on Euclid's 'Elements'' and 'The Source of Necessity'

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1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

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Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche) [May]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

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Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale]

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Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale]

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The explanation of a necessity can be by a truth (which may only happen to be a necessary truth) [Hale]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention

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If necessity rests on linguistic conventions, those are contingent, so there is no necessity [Hale]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts

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Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

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Geometrical proofs do not show causes, as when we prove a triangle contains two right angles [Proclus]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9569	The origin of geometry started in sensation, then moved to calculation, and then to reason [Proclus]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

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For existentialists the present is empty without the pull of the future and weight of the past [May]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / a. Liberalism basics

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Liberal theory starts from the governed, not from the governor [May]