Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Rationality', 'On the spiritual perfection of life' and 'Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature'

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11 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

6950	You can be rational with undetected or minor inconsistencies [Harman]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

6954	A coherent conceptual scheme contains best explanations of most of your beliefs [Harman]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

22102

Arguing with opponents uncovers truths, and restrains falsehoods [Aquinas]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

21925

For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves [Schelling, by Lewis,PB]

22045

Metaphysics aims at the Absolute, which goes beyond subjective and objective viewpoints [Schelling, by Pinkard]

14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction

6955	Enumerative induction is inference to the best explanation [Harman]

14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction

6952	Induction is 'defeasible', since additional information can invalidate it [Harman]

14. Science / C. Induction / 4. Reason in Induction

6953	All reasoning is inductive, and deduction only concerns implication [Harman]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

6951	Ordinary rationality is conservative, starting from where your beliefs currently are [Harman]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

22057

Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind [Schelling, by Bowie]

22031

Schelling made organisms central to nature, because mere mechanism could never produce them [Schelling, by Pinkard]