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All the ideas for 'The Philosophy of Philosophy', 'Presidential Address of Am. Math. Soc' and 'Science of Logic'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
9593 Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama [Williamson]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
21761 If we start with indeterminate being, we arrive at being and nothing as a united pair [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21764 Thought about being leads to a string of other concepts, like becoming, quantity, specificity, causality... [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21769 We must start with absolute abstraction, with no presuppositions, so we start with pure being [Hegel]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
22037 Objectivity is not by correspondence, but by the historical determined necessity of Geist [Hegel, by Pinkard]
2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
21983 Being and nothing are the same and not the same, which is the identity of identity and non-identity [Hegel]
21985 The so-called world is filled with contradiction [Hegel]
2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
21766 Dialectic is the instability of thoughts generating their opposite, and then new more complex thoughts [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21978 Hegel's dialectic is not thesis-antithesis-synthesis, but usually negation of negation of the negation [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
9594 Correspondence to the facts is a bad account of analytic truth [Williamson]
5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 2. History of Logic
10247 We have no adequate logic at the moment, so mathematicians must create one [Veblen]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
21762 To grasp an existence, we must consider its non-existence [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21977 Nothing exists, as thinkable and expressible [Hegel]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing
21760 Thinking of nothing is not the same as simply not thinking [Hegel, by Houlgate]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
21765 The ground of a thing is not another thing, but the first thing's substance or rational concept [Hegel, by Houlgate]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
22059 Kant's thing-in-itself is just an abstraction from our knowledge; things only exist for us [Hegel, by Bowie]
22083 Hegel believe that the genuine categories reveal things in themselves [Hegel, by Houlgate]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
9601 The realist/anti-realist debate is notoriously obscure and fruitless [Williamson]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
9599 There cannot be vague objects, so there may be no such thing as a mountain [Williamson]
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations
22080 The nature of each category relates itself to another [Hegel]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects
9602 Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness [Williamson]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary
9598 Modal thinking isn't a special intuition; it is part of ordinary counterfactual thinking [Williamson]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
16536 Williamson can't base metaphysical necessity on the psychology of causal counterfactuals [Lowe on Williamson]
9596 We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals [Williamson]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty
21772 In absolute knowing, the gap between object and oneself closes, producing certainty [Hegel]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
20954 The 'absolute idea' is when all the contradictions are exhausted [Hegel, by Bowie]
21972 Hegel, unlike Kant, said how things appear is the same as how things are [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
22038 Hegel's non-subjective idealism is the unity of subjective and objective viewpoints [Hegel, by Pinkard]
22044 Hegel claimed his system was about the world, but it only mapped conceptual interdependence [Pinkard on Hegel]
21464 The Absolute is the primitive system of concepts which are actualised [Hegel, by Gardner]
22084 Authentic thinking and reality have the same content [Hegel]
21975 The absolute idea is being, imperishable life, self-knowing truth, and all truth [Hegel]
21976 The absolute idea is the great unity of the infinite system of concepts [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
9597 There are 'armchair' truths which are not a priori, because experience was involved [Williamson]
12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
9592 Intuition is neither powerful nor vacuous, but reveals linguistic or conceptual competence [Williamson]
20181 When analytic philosophers run out of arguments, they present intuitions as their evidence [Williamson]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
22058 Hegel's 'absolute idea' is the interdependence of all truths to justify any of them [Hegel, by Bowie]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
20953 Every concept depends on the counter-concepts of what it is not [Hegel, by Bowie]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
9595 You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson]
19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
21763 When we explicate the category of being, we watch a new category emerge [Hegel, by Houlgate]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture
9600 If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson]