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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'The Theory of Transfinite Numbers' and 'Continental Philosophy - V. Short Intro'

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8 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]

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

7068	If infatuation with science leads to bad scientism, its rejection leads to obscurantism [Critchley]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

7075	To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being [Critchley]

7069	The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx [Critchley]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

9616	A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / f. Uncountable infinities

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Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine]

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]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7067	Food first, then ethics [Critchley]