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The end of objectivity by Gian-Carlo Rota in 1973

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Contents

1 Introduction

2 The Two Philosophies

  • 2.1 The existential attitude: a critique of physicalist reduction
  • 2.2 The consequences of the existential view: a new objectivity

3 The Reform of Logic

  • 3.1 The existential critique of knowledge as primary
  • 3.3 The reform of logic: Heidegger
  • 3.2 The Cartesian world view has cracked

4 Heidegger and the Shaking of the Foundations

  • 4.1 Review

    • 4.1.1 Acts of withholding
  • 4.2 Existentialism’s thesis
  • 4.3 Heidegger’s reform of logic
  • 4.4 Operational logic made primary
  • 4.5 The structure of operational logic
  • 4.6 The consequences of operational logic
  • 4.7 Truth and angst illustrate the relations of classical logic to operational logic