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All the ideas for 'later work', 'Improvement of Understanding' and 'The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction

6840	Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised [Derrida, by Critchley]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition

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All the intrinsic properties of a thing should be deducible from its definition [Spinoza]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / d. Consilience

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Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence

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To understand the properties we must know the essence, as with a circle [Spinoza]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

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A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common [Derrida, by Glendinning]

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Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical? [Derrida, by Glendinning]