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All the ideas for 'Three Grades of Modal Involvement', 'Review of 'Aenesidemus'' and 'On the Genealogy of Ethics'

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10 ideas

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

7500	Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

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Whether a modal claim is true depends on how the object is described [Quine, by Fine,K]

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

10922

Objects are the values of variables, so a referentially opaque context cannot be quantified into [Quine]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

10923

Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

10921

Necessity can attach to statement-names, to statements, and to open sentences [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

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Necessity is in the way in which we say things, and not things themselves [Quine]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

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Mental presentation are not empirical, but concern the strivings of the self [Fichte]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22015

The thing-in-itself is an empty dream [Fichte, by Pinkard]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds

7501	Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure

7498	Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault]