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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'Episteme and Logos in later Plato' and 'Letter to Shumacher'

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5 ideas

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

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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

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The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects [Nehamas]

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A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object [Nehamas]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

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Actual infinities are not allowed in mathematics - only limits which may increase without bound [Gauss]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]