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Ideas of John Richardson, by Text
[American, fl. 2002, Professor at New York University.]
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Intro
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p.3
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Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths
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Intro
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p.7
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20350
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Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology
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Intro
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p.7
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Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details
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§112
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p.173
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A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect
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§966
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p.506
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Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives
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