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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Introduction to German Philosophy' and 'The Theory of Transfinite Numbers'

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8 ideas

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

20955

Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

9616	A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / f. Uncountable infinities

15896

Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

20950

German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct

20942

Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

20946

Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]