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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature' and 'talk'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1403	A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

579	Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

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

21925

For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves [Schelling, by Lewis,PB]

22045

Metaphysics aims at the Absolute, which goes beyond subjective and objective viewpoints [Schelling, by Pinkard]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

578	Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

22057

Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind [Schelling, by Bowie]

22031

Schelling made organisms central to nature, because mere mechanism could never produce them [Schelling, by Pinkard]