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Ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right' and 'Laws in Nature'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
Many forms of reasoning, such as extrapolation and analogy, are useful but deductively invalid [Mumford]
     Full Idea: There are many forms of reasoning - extrapolation, interpolation, and other arguments from analogy - that are useful but deductively invalid.
     From: Stephen Mumford (Laws in Nature [2004], 04.4)
     A reaction: [He cites Molnar for this]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
Subjective and objective are not firmly opposed, but merge into one another [Hegel]
     Full Idea: It is usually believed that the subjective and objective are firmly opposed to one another. But this is not the case; they in fact pass over into one another.
     From: Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821], 026 add)
     A reaction: I take this to mean that they are on a spectrum, rather than being binary opposites. This seems reasonable to me, since I take there to be degrees of objectivity.