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All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy' and 'Entity and Identity'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

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All philosophies presuppose their historical moment, and arise from it [Feuerbach]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

19442

I don't study Plato for his own sake; the primary aim is always understanding [Feuerbach]

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

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Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation [Feuerbach]

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A dialectician has to be his own opponent [Feuerbach]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

19443

Truth forges an impersonal unity between people [Feuerbach]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

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To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal [Feuerbach]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / b. Need for abstracta

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We need a logical use of 'object' as predicate-worthy, and an 'ontological' use [Strawson,P]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P]

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

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The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature' [Feuerbach]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

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The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]