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'Parmenides', 'Explanation - Opening Address' and 'Problems of Philosophy'
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
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When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect [Plato]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence
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Coherence is consilience, simplicity, analogy, and fitting into a web of belief [Smart]
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We need comprehensiveness, as well as self-coherence [Smart]
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought
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Three Laws of Thought: identity, contradiction, and excluded middle [Russell]
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The law of contradiction is not a 'law of thought', but a belief about things [Russell]
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 5. Opposites
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Opposites are as unlike as possible [Plato]
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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
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Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic [Hegel on Plato]
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