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Preface | p. vii |
Philosophical Principles | p. 1 |
Philosophical Principles | p. 1 |
Principles of Informative Adequacy | p. 3 |
Probative Principles of Rational Cogency | p. 5 |
Principles of Rational Economy | p. 7 |
Issues of Validation | p. 10 |
Dealing with Objections | p. 14 |
Aporetic Method in Philosophy | p. 17 |
Consistency and Apories | p. 17 |
Some Sample Apories | p. 19 |
On Appraising Apories | p. 21 |
Enter Distinctions | p. 23 |
Apory Resolution as Cost-Benefit Analysis | p. 24 |
On Distinctions in Philosophy | p. 27 |
What Distinctions Are | p. 27 |
How Distinctions Fail | p. 29 |
Misassimilation | p. 31 |
Historical Background | p. 35 |
The Role of Distinctions in Philosophy | p. 36 |
Philosophical Apories Tie Issues Together | p. 41 |
Respect Neglect and Misassimilation as Fallacies of Philosophical Distinctions | p. 45 |
Respect Neglect | p. 45 |
Simplicity | p. 46 |
Fallacy | p. 47 |
Systemic Interconnectedness and Explanatory Holism in Philosophy | p. 51 |
The Problem | p. 51 |
Summative Features | p. 52 |
Fallacies of Composition and Division | p. 53 |
Is Existence Mereologically Summative? No-A Whole is More Than Its Parts | p. 53 |
The Analytical/Constructionist Program | p. 54 |
Instances of the Implementation of the Constructionist Program | p. 55 |
Problem Number One: The Fallacy of Termination Presumption | p. 60 |
Problem Number Two: The Disintegration of Simplicity and the Fallacy of Respect Neglect | p. 61 |
Perspectival Dissonance and Nonamalgamation | p. 62 |
Cognition Is Not Summative | p. 63 |
Review | p. 65 |
Externalities and Negative Side Effects | p. 66 |
Systematic Interconnectedness as a Consequence of Aporetic Complexity | p. 71 |
The Structure of Philosophical Dialectic | p. 75 |
Philosophical Aporetics | p. 75 |
The Role of Distinctions | p. 78 |
The Structure of Dialectic | p. 81 |
Developmental Dialectics | p. 84 |
The Burden of History | p. 89 |
The Structure of Philosophical History | p. 92 |
Ignorance and Cognitive Horizons | p. 95 |
Ignorance | p. 95 |
Intractable Questions about the Cognitive Future and Surd Generalties | p. 97 |
Insolubilia Then and Now | p. 100 |
Cognitive Limits | p. 102 |
Identifying Insolubilia | p. 104 |
Relating Knowledge to Ignorance | p. 106 |
Notes | p. 109 |
Bibliography | p. 115 |
Index | p. 119 |
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