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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'Our Knowledge of Mathematical Objects' and 'The Republic'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

2136	Philosophers become as divine and orderly as possible, by studying divinity and order [Plato]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The winds of the discussion should decide its destination [Plato]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

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It would be absurd to be precise about the small things, but only vague about the big things [Plato]

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

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