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Philosophical theory

Philosophical theory
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theoretical concept within philosophy

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  1. Under the guidance of this idea, or principle, no empirical laws of corporeal phenomena are called in to explain that which is a phenomenon of the internal sense alone; no windy hypotheses of the generation, annihilation, and palingenesis of souls are admitted. Thus the consideration of this object of the internal sense is kept pure, and unmixed with heterogeneous elements; while the investigation of reason aims at…

    Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason

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  2. Although, then, Philosophy can be divided only into two main parts, the theoretical and the practical, and although all that we may be able to say of the special principles of Judgement must be counted as belonging in it to the theoretical part, _i.e._ to rational cognition in accordance with natural concepts; yet the Critique of pure Reason, which must decide all this, as regards the possibility of the system…

    Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement

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  3. Within the sphere of philosophic thought there have been two typical attempts to provide a working representative of the absolute goal. Both start from the conception of a whole--an absolute--which is "immanent" in human life. The perfect or complete ideal is not a mere ideal; it is operative here and now.

    John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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Part of Cratylism.

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