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'Parmenides', 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' and 'Discourse on Metaphysics'
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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 / B. Laws of Thought / 5. Opposites
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Opposites are as unlike as possible [Plato]
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
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Reason avoids multiplying hypotheses or principles [Leibniz]
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Anti-Razor: if you can't account for a truth, keep positing things until you can [Pasnau]
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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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