Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Aristotle and the Metaphysics', 'How to Read Foucault' and 'Metaphysical Foundations of Mathematics'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

6 ideas

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

22234

Post-structuralism focused on exterior determinants of thought, rather than the thinker [Oksala]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions

11257

The Pythagoreans were the first to offer definitions [Politis, by Politis]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth

11235

'True of' is applicable to things, while 'true' is applicable to words [Politis]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

11277

Maybe 'What is being? is confusing because we can't ask what non-being is like [Politis]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

11248

Necessary truths can be two-way relational, where essential truths are one-way or intrinsic [Politis]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow

22908

When one element contains the grounds of the other, the first one is prior in time [Leibniz]