Sentences with phrase «extreme vagueness»

As I argue in Myths of Reason, rationalistic thought is obliged always to «begin in the rough» with the assumption that certain «large» general ideas are just what is needed; 1 ideas whose extreme vagueness reveals that the range of rational concepts is very broad indeed, so broad in fact that the vexed question of just where and how to begin doing natural philosophy becomes a primary and major worry.

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Vagueness can be avoided, of course, if we go to the logical extreme of such a move, which would lie in attributing to the consequent nature all valuations, reserving to the primordial nature only the constitution of metaphysical possibility and the subjective aim toward value realization in general.