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All the ideas for 'Induction', 'Introduction to 'Properties'' 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

21463

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

21460

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

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

4037	Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver]

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

21444

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

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

21453

Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

4027	Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

4029	Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification

8800	If you would deny a truth if you know the full evidence, then knowledge has social aspects [Harman, by Sosa]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation

4039	Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]