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All the ideas for 'Intro to 'Philosophical Essays'', 'On the Source of Necessity' and 'Prolegomena to Ethics'

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8 ideas

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

9786	Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

9784	A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / g. System S4

15102

S4 says there must be some necessary truths (the actual ones, of which there is at least one) [Cameron]

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

15103

Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics

23035

The good life aims at perfections, or absolute laws, or what is absolutely desirable [Green,TH]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / c. Liberal equality

23037

People are improved by egalitarian institutions and habits [Green,TH]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / e. Liberal community

23043

All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

15104

The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron]