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All the ideas for 'Symbolic Reasoning', 'Presupposition' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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13 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour

6847	Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change [Critchley]

6848	Humour is practically enacted philosophy [Critchley]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

6844	Scientism is the view that everything can be explained causally through scientific method [Critchley]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

6835	German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms [Critchley]

6837	Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry. [Critchley]

6836	Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason [Critchley]

6838	Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation [Critchley]

6845	Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything [Critchley]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology

6846	Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world [Critchley]

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 3. Term Logic

19053

Logic would be more natural if negation only referred to predicates [Dummett]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / b. Empty (Null) Set

21548

The null class is the class with all the non-existents as its members [MacColl, by Lackey]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

19052

Natural language 'not' doesn't apply to sentences [Dummett]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

6843	Perceiving meaninglessness is an achievement, which can transform daily life [Critchley]