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All the ideas for 'Anselm and Actuality', 'Logological Fragments II' and 'Demonstratives'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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The highest aim of philosophy is to combine all philosophies into a unity [Novalis]

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Philosophy relies on our whole system of learning, and can thus never be complete [Novalis]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

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Philosophers feed on problems, hoping they are digestible, and spiced with paradox [Novalis]

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

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Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system [Novalis]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic

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For modality Lewis rejected boxes and diamonds, preferring worlds, and an index for the actual one [Lewis, by Stalnaker]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 8. Logic of Mathematics

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Logic (the theory of relations) should be applied to mathematics [Novalis]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Kaplan, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

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'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Kaplan, by Schroeter]