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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' and 'Review of Tait 'Provenance of Pure Reason''

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy
22002 Wolff's version of Leibniz dominated mid-18th C German thought [Pinkard]
22021 Romantics explored beautiful subjectivity, and the re-enchantment of nature [Pinkard]
22010 The combination of Kant and the French Revolution was an excited focus for German philosophy [Pinkard]
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy
22036 In Hegel's time naturalism was called 'Spinozism' [Pinkard]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / j. Axiom of Choice IX
13418 The old problems with the axiom of choice are probably better ascribed to the law of excluded middle [Parsons,C]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 8. Finitism
13419 If functions are transfinite objects, finitists can have no conception of them [Parsons,C]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
13417 If a mathematical structure is rejected from a physical theory, it retains its mathematical status [Parsons,C]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism
22048 Idealism is the link between reason and freedom [Pinkard]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
1748 Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
5989 Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]