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Full Idea
Thinking that is free is without presuppositions.
Gist of Idea
Free thinking has no presuppositions
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §41 Add1)
Book Ref
Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'The Hegel Reader', ed/tr. Houlgate,Stephen [Blackwell 1998], p.153
A Reaction
Fat chance, I would have thought. Hegel's project was indeed to try to get right to the bottom of the presuppositions. My picture is always of holding one thing presupposed while you examine another, and then switching to other presuppositions.