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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy' and 'Testability and Meaning'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

19441

All philosophies presuppose their historical moment, and arise from it [Feuerbach]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

19442

I don't study Plato for his own sake; the primary aim is always understanding [Feuerbach]

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

20768

Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

19445

A dialectician has to be his own opponent [Feuerbach]

19444

Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation [Feuerbach]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

19443

Truth forges an impersonal unity between people [Feuerbach]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

19446

To our consciousness it is language which looks unreal [Feuerbach]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

14305

In the truth-functional account a burnt-up match was soluble because it never entered water [Carnap]

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

19447

The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature' [Feuerbach]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean

3049	The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

3549	Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas]