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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'Armstrong on combinatorial possibility' and 'Language,Truth and Logic'

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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 / 3. Philosophy Defined

5196	Philosophy is a department of logic [Ayer]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason

5189	Philosophers should abandon speculation, as philosophy is wholly critical [Ayer]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

7919	Humeans rejected the a priori synthetic, and so rejected even Kantian metaphysics [Ayer, by Macdonald,C]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

15545

Armstrong's analysis seeks truthmakers rather than definitions [Lewis]

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

5195	Critics say analysis can only show the parts, and not their distinctive configuration [Ayer]

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

5179	Philosophy deals with the questions that scientists do not wish to handle [Ayer]

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