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Plus 197 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicPhilosophers, 313 claims: 170 well-attested, 11 scholarly debate, 27 holds, 46 connected, 6 critiqued Here, 53 general references.Articles, 164 claims: 125 well-attested, 39 general references.Schools of Philosophy, 148 claims: 60 well-attested, 5 scholarly debate, 39 holds, 9 connected, 1 critiqued Here, 1 rejected Here, 3 held Differently, 30 general references.Works, 139 claims: 48 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 22 holds, 48 connected, 19 general references.Branches of Philosophy, 130 claims: 35 well-attested, 18 scholarly debate, 34 holds, 43 general references.Open Questions, 70 claims: 57 well-attested, 4 connected, 9 general references.Concepts, 15 claims: 5 well-attested, 4 holds, 2 connected, 4 general references.Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.Well-attested505ArticlesA Committee That Judged ItselfA Ladder to Be Thrown Away: Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the Limits of LanguageA Name Invented by Its Outsiders: How Continental Philosophy Got Its NameA Private Language Cannot ExistAl-Farabi's Grammar of BeingAnselm's Island and the Argument That Would Not DieBracketing the World: What Husserl's Epoche Actually Asks You to DoClass as the Engine of HistoryDoubting Everything to Find One Thing CertainFour Traditions Under One Umbrella: What German Idealism, Phenomenology, Existentialism and Critical Theory Actually ShareFrom Consciousness to Being-in-the-World: Heidegger's Break with His TeacherHow a Pagan Philosopher Shaped Christian Theology: Augustine's Debt to PlotinusHume's Fork and the Limits of ReasonHume's Unanswerable QuestionMarx Against the UtilitariansNot Two: How Shankara Read the Upanishads Against ThemselvesOne Poem or TwoReason's Widest Claim: Spinoza's Single SubstanceThe Ghost in the Machine, ReconsideredThe King of France Problem: Russell's Theory of DescriptionsThe Man Who Refused a CrownThe Mind as Blank SlateThe One Beyond Being: Plotinus's Radical Reading of PlatoThe Problem of Evil, Restated Each CenturyThree Answers to the Same QuestionThree Commentaries, Three Vedantas: Why the Same Texts Produced Rival SchoolsWhat Hobbes FearedWhat It Is Like to Be SomethingWhy Science Still Works AnywayBranches of PhilosophyAestheticsEpistemologyEthicsLogicMetaphysicsPhilosophy of ActionPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of MindPhilosophy of ReligionPhilosophy of SciencePolitical PhilosophyConceptsQualiaThe Categorical ImperativeThe Problem of InductionThe Veil of IgnoranceOpen QuestionsAre human choices ever free in a sense incompatible with universal causal determination?Is the mind identical with the physical brain, or is it something genuinely non-physical?Must what justifies a belief be accessible from within the believer's own perspective, or can a reliable process the believer is unaware of confer justification?Was There a Single Historical Laozi?What Are Mozi's Life Dates and Origins?What must be added to, or substituted for, justified true belief for a definition of knowledge that survives Gettier-style counterexamples?Showing 1 to 50 of 134 entities carrying this claim. 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NextCritiqued Here7PhilosophersEdmund BurkeGottfried Wilhelm LeibnizImmanuel KantKarl MarxSchools of PhilosophyMarxismRejected Here1Schools of PhilosophyRationalismHeld Differently3Schools of PhilosophyDaoismExistentialismNeoplatonismGeneral References197ArticlesA Committee That Judged ItselfA Ladder to Be Thrown Away: Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the Limits of LanguageA Name Invented by Its Outsiders: How Continental Philosophy Got Its NameA Private Language Cannot ExistAl-Farabi's Grammar of BeingAnselm's Island and the Argument That Would Not DieBracketing the World: What Husserl's Epoche Actually Asks You to DoClass as the Engine of HistoryDoubting Everything to Find One Thing CertainFour Traditions Under One Umbrella: What German Idealism, Phenomenology, Existentialism and Critical Theory Actually ShareFrom Consciousness to Being-in-the-World: Heidegger's Break with His TeacherHow a Pagan Philosopher Shaped Christian Theology: Augustine's Debt to PlotinusHume's Fork and the Limits of ReasonHume's Unanswerable QuestionMarx Against the UtilitariansNot Two: How Shankara Read the Upanishads Against ThemselvesOne Poem or TwoReason's Widest Claim: Spinoza's Single SubstanceThe Ghost in the Machine, ReconsideredThe King of France Problem: Russell's Theory of DescriptionsThe Man Who Refused a CrownThe Mind as Blank SlateThe One Beyond Being: Plotinus's Radical Reading of PlatoThe Problem of Evil, Restated Each CenturyThree Answers to the Same QuestionThree Commentaries, Three Vedantas: Why the Same Texts Produced Rival SchoolsWhat Hobbes FearedWhat It Is Like to Be SomethingWhy Science Still Works AnywayBranches of PhilosophyAestheticsEpistemologyEthicsLogicMetaphysicsPhilosophy of ActionPhilosophy of BiologyPhilosophy of EducationPhilosophy of HistoryPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of LawPhilosophy of MathematicsPhilosophy of MindPhilosophy of ReligionPhilosophy of SciencePhilosophy of TechnologyPolitical PhilosophyValue TheoryConceptsQualiaThe Categorical ImperativeThe Problem of InductionShowing 1 to 50 of 138 entities carrying this claim. 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