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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'Concerning the Trinity' and 'Problems of Philosophy'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

19648

Since Kant we think we can only access 'correlations' between thinking and being [Meillassoux]

19674

The Copernican Revolution decentres the Earth, but also decentres thinking from reality [Meillassoux]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 6. Twentieth Century Thought

19657

In Kant the thing-in-itself is unknowable, but for us it has become unthinkable [Meillassoux]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

5361	Philosophers must get used to absurdities [Russell]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

5368	Philosophy verifies that our hierarchy of instinctive beliefs is harmonious and consistent [Russell]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

5432	Metaphysics cannot give knowledge of the universe as a whole [Russell]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

19675

Since Kant, philosophers have claimed to understand science better than scientists do [Meillassoux]

5434	Philosophy is similar to science, and has no special source of wisdom [Russell]