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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Vagueness' and 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason'

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

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

21459

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

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

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Logical connectives have the highest precision, yet are infected by the vagueness of true and false [Russell, by Williamson]

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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

9051	Since natural language is not precise it cannot be in the province of logic [Russell, by Keefe/Smith]

9054	Vagueness is only a characteristic of representations, such as language [Russell]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]