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All the ideas for 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man', 'Ruling Passions' and 'fragments/reports'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility

5998	From the necessity of the past we can infer the impossibility of what never happens [Diod.Cronus, by White,MJ]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

20832

The Master Argument seems to prove that only what will happen is possible [Diod.Cronus, by Epictetus]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

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Conditionals are true when the antecedent is true, and the consequent has to be true [Diod.Cronus]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

6024	Thought is unambiguous, and you should stick to what the speaker thinks they are saying [Diod.Cronus, by Gellius]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

23996

Akrasia is intelligible in hindsight, when we revisit our previous emotions [Blackburn]