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All the ideas for 'Symposium', 'On the Concept of Number' and 'On Metaphysics (frags)'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Hilbert said (to block paradoxes) that mathematical existence is entailed by consistency [Hilbert, by Potter]

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

5845	Niceratus learnt the whole of Homer by heart, as a guide to goodness [Xenophon]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied

5990	Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk]