The Devil in Modern Philosophy

... weapons still in their hands. The most recent version of the linguistic devil is interesting in that the sphere in which the devil must be fought has shrunk very much indeed. All the common activities, ... to begin their careers on a pedestal not simply in the eyes of their authors: they are liable to arrive in a form such that THE CRISIS IN THE HUMANITIES AND...

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... methods. In effect, these are universal features that "emerge" in the asymptotic domain as the wave theory approaches the ray theory in the limit 6 The Devil in the Details as ... essential is the singular nature of the limiting relations between the "base" theory and the theory describing the emergents. The singular nat...

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... us of what they are intuitions; we make theminto intuitions of something, into representations by actively combining them according to the rules of judgment, of conceptual representation in general. ... the themes of “freedom” and the “thinking for oneself ” were indeed motivating the Critique, one could nonetheless excuse any reader who found themsomewhat hard to find in its openi...

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... having his rights independently of whether others would actually grant him those rights or be sympathetic to his having them). Indeed, the most striking thing about Kant’s thesis was that there ... philosophy Kant thought the key to answering these questions lay in the prac- tical necessity for assuming that we are free. The independence of the normative from the factual in...

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... imagination and intellect (der Verstand, the understanding”) are in free play with each other – free in the sense that their interaction with each other is not constrained by any rule. When the ... might have the concept of a “rose” and then judge whether the flower we are observing is indeed a rose – is indeed an “instance” or “instantiation” of the more general concept.) In...

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... actions. POLITICISING THE PAST The s were a time of questioning in many Western nations. The generation growing up in the s, discontented with the complacency of its parents, rebelled against the values ... meaning for their behaviour and the actions of the German nation. In the initial decade following the Second World War most writers were unable to compreh...

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... print. “Shipping it actually cost more than the printing, if you can believe it.” The campaign worked so effectively in stamping the brand in the consumer’s mind that Urban Outfitters retained ... sometimes the quality of these images is amazingly intricate. As tattooing has become increasingly more fashionable in the general population (though in some U.S. states it is st...

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... the science of gynecology around the world. An analysis of the origins of medical development in the South provides another locus in the larger discourse of colonial medicine in the late nineteenth ... discoveries, including the invention the Sims Speculum and the Sims Position, and the use of silver sutures to prevent internal infections. These innovations eventu...

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