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Ideas for 'Difference and Repetition', 'Mind, Brain and the Quantum' and 'The Possibility of Metaphysics'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

2956	There is nothing so obvious that a philosopher cannot be found to deny it [Lockwood]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Science needs metaphysics to weed out its presuppositions [Lowe, by Hofweber]

9414	Metaphysics is the mapping of possibilities [Lowe, by Mumford]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

8282	Only metaphysics can decide whether identity survives through change [Lowe]

16127

Metaphysics tells us what there could be, rather than what there is [Lowe]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 3. Analysis of Preconditions

2963	There may only be necessary and sufficient conditions (and counterfactuals) because we intervene in the world [Lockwood]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis

2958	No one has ever succeeded in producing an acceptable non-trivial analysis of anything [Lockwood]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May]