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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Intro to III: Quantifiers' and 'Manuscript remains'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

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Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

9465	Substitutional universal quantification retains truth for substitution of terms of the same type [Jacquette]

9466	Nominalists like substitutional quantification to avoid the metaphysics of objects [Jacquette]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

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As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer]