Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'Reality and Representation' and 'Spreading the Word'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

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Asserting a necessity just expresses our inability to imagine it is false [Blackburn]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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Belief truth-conditions are normal circumstances where the belief is supposed to occur [Papineau]

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

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Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

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The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie]

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German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie]

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Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]