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Ideas for 'Letters to Edward Stillingfleet', 'Heidegger: an introduction' and 'Mind in a Physical World'

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

2319	Metaphysics is the clarification of the ontological relationships between different areas of thought [Kim]
	Full Idea: Metaphysics is the domain where different languages, theories, explanations, and conceptual systems come together and have their mutual ontological relationships sorted out and clarified.
	From: Jaegwon Kim (Mind in a Physical World [1998], §3 p.066)

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

15575	Knowledge is not a static set of correct propositions, but a continuing search for better interpretations [Polt]
	Full Idea: Thanks to Heidegger, hermeneutics has gained wider acceptance - that knowledge is not a static set of correct propositions, but a continuing search for better interpretations.
	From: Richard Polt (Heidegger: an introduction [1999], 3.§7)
	A reaction: I am not sure if I understand the notion of a search that has a refusal to actually find anything as one of its basic principles.