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'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'Language,Truth and Logic' and 'Reflections on Value'
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
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Philosophy is a department of logic [Ayer]
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All thought about values is philosophical, and thought about anything else is not philosophy [Weil]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent
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Philosophy aims to change the soul, not to accumulate knowledge [Weil]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
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Philosophers should abandon speculation, as philosophy is wholly critical [Ayer]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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Systems are not unique to each philosopher. The platonist tradition is old and continuous [Weil]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics
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Humeans rejected the a priori synthetic, and so rejected even Kantian metaphysics [Ayer, by Macdonald,C]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
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Critics say analysis can only show the parts, and not their distinctive configuration [Ayer]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
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Philosophy deals with the questions that scientists do not wish to handle [Ayer]
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