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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Continental Philosophy - V. Short Intro' and 'Vagueness'

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8 ideas

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

7068	If infatuation with science leads to bad scientism, its rejection leads to obscurantism [Critchley]

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

7075	To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being [Critchley]

7069	The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx [Critchley]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

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Logical connectives have the highest precision, yet are infected by the vagueness of true and false [Russell, by Williamson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

9051	Since natural language is not precise it cannot be in the province of logic [Russell, by Keefe/Smith]

9054	Vagueness is only a characteristic of representations, such as language [Russell]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7067	Food first, then ethics [Critchley]