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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Periodic Table' and 'Explanation - Opening Address'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

224	When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect [Plato]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

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Coherence is consilience, simplicity, analogy, and fitting into a web of belief [Smart]

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We need comprehensiveness, as well as self-coherence [Smart]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 5. Opposites

232	Opposites are as unlike as possible [Plato]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

8937	Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic [Hegel on Plato]