Simmel composed essays by first jotting thematic fragments for later elaboration
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- Caesarist forms must be read individually, not as rigid schemata (similarity 0.81)
- Specific meaning arises only from an arbitrary contingent break (similarity 0.81)
- Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.80)
- Sinn precedes meaning as the horizon of possibilities (similarity 0.80)
- A discourse both enables and constrains how a topic can be constructed (similarity 0.80)
- Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.80)
- Common sense is the sedimented residue of past philosophies, continually transforming. (similarity 0.79)
- Tempels held that Africans express thought only through ritual, not discourse (similarity 0.79)
- Gramsci’s core concepts work as opposed but dialectically united pairs (similarity 0.79)
- Colin McGinn argues consciousness is a mystery that human intelligence will never unravel, as the hard problem of qualia cannot be resolved by humans. (similarity 0.79)
- The dialectic is the marrow of historiography and political science, not formal logic. (similarity 0.79)
- A philosophy’s historical impact is measured by its sediment in common sense. (similarity 0.79)
- Discourses form coherent wholes through interlocking statements sharing strategy (similarity 0.79)