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All the ideas for 'works', 'Reasons for Actions and Desires' and '64: Gryllus - on Rationality in Animals'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 3. Contradiction

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

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I don't understand the idea of a reason for acting, but it is probably the agent's interests or desires [Foot]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

1477	Being manly and brave is the result of convention, not of human nature [Plutarch]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / e. Role of pleasure

1478	Animals don't value pleasure, as they cease sexual intercourse after impregnation [Plutarch]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality

1479	Animals have not been led into homosexuality, because they value pleasure very little [Plutarch]