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All the ideas for 'The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science', 'Methodological Reflections on Current Linguistic Theory' and 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

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The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' [Leroi]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy

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Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner]

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Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner]

2. Reason / E. Argument / 2. Transcendental Argument

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Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

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Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Syntax and semantics are indeterminate, and modern 'semantics' is a bogus subject [Quine, by Lycan]