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All the ideas for 'Rules for the Direction of the Mind', 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason' and 'Metaphysics: an introduction'

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15 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy

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Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner]

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Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is a quest for truthmakers [Tallant]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

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Maybe number statements can be paraphrased into quantifications plus identities [Tallant]

2. Reason / E. Argument / 2. Transcendental Argument

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Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 3. Truthmaker Maximalism

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Maybe only 'positive' truths need truth-makers [Tallant]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths

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A truthmaker is the minimal portion of reality that will do the job [Tallant]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers

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What is the truthmaker for a possible new power? [Tallant]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

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Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

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The wisdom of Plato and of Socrates are not the same property [Tallant]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

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Substance must have two properties: individuation, and property-bearing [Tallant]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

9807	In pursuing truth, anything less certain than mathematics is a waste of time [Descartes]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense

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Are propositions all the thoughts and sentences that are possible? [Tallant]