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Single Idea 3651
[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason
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Full Idea
If one never in fact grasps any necessary connections between anything, it is hard to see what reasoning could possible amount to.
Gist of Idea
Perceiving necessary connections is the essence of reasoning
Source
Laurence Bonjour (In Defence of Pure Reason [1998], §4.3)
Book Ref
Bonjour,Laurence: 'In Defense of Pure Reason' [CUP 1998], p.110
The
13 ideas
with the same theme
[idea of reason as independent of natural constraints]:
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350
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In investigation the body leads us astray, but the soul gets a clear view of the facts
[Plato]
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17194
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Reason only explains what is universal, so it is timeless, under a certain form of eternity
[Spinoza]
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4840
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Reason perceives things under a certain form of eternity
[Spinoza]
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19335
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Reasonings have a natural ordering in God's understanding, but only a temporal order in ours
[Leibniz]
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5578
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Pure reason deals with concepts in the understanding, not with objects
[Kant]
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5603
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Pure reason exists outside of time
[Kant]
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5616
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Pure reason is only concerned with itself because it deals with understandings, not objects
[Kant]
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5628
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Reason hates to be limited in its speculations
[Kant]
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21054
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Reason enables the unbounded extension of our rules and intentions
[Kant]
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22081
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Let thought follow its own course, and don't interfere
[Hegel]
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10804
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Thoughts have a natural order, to which human thinking is drawn
[Frege, by Yablo]
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8251
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The logical space of reasons is a natural phenomenon, and it is the realm of freedom
[McDowell]
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3651
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Perceiving necessary connections is the essence of reasoning
[Bonjour]
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