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All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action' and 'works'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 4. Linguistic Structuralism

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Basic to human culture are binary oppositions, such as eating raw or cooked [Levi-Strauss, by Green,TH]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

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Moral right is linked to validity and truth, so morality is a matter of knowledge, not an expression of values [Habermas, by Finlayson]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

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Move from individual willing of a general law, to willing norms agreed with other people [Habermas]