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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy' and 'Substitutional Classes and Relations'

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12 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

19445

A dialectician has to be his own opponent [Feuerbach]

19444

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

2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

21560

Any linguistic expression may lack meaning when taken out of context [Russell]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes

21561

'The number one is bald' or 'the number one is fond of cream cheese' are meaningless [Russell]

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

19443

Truth forges an impersonal unity between people [Feuerbach]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / p. Axiom of Reducibility

18130

Axiom of Reducibility: there is always a function of the lowest possible order in a given level [Russell, by Bostock]

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

19446

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

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

21562

There is no complexity without relations, so no propositions, and no truth [Russell]

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

19447

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

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5996	Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA]