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'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'works' and 'Lectures 1930-32 (student notes)'
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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy
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The history of philosophy only matters if the subject is a choice between rival theories [Wittgenstein]
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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy
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Leibniz aims to give coherent rational support for empiricism [Leibniz, by Perkins]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles
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Philosophy tries to be rid of certain intellectual puzzles, irrelevant to daily life [Wittgenstein]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
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Philosophers express puzzlement, but don't clearly state the puzzle [Wittgenstein]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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Metaphysics is a science of the intelligible nature of being [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science
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Leibniz tried to combine mechanistic physics with scholastic metaphysics [Leibniz, by Pasnau]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
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We don't need a theory of truth, because we use the word perfectly well [Wittgenstein]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
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We already know what we want to know, and analysis gives us no new facts [Wittgenstein]
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