“That individual philosophical concepts are not anything capricious or autonomously evolving, but grow up in connection and relationship with each other; that, however suddenly and arbitrarily they seem to appear in the history of thought, they nevertheless belong just as much to a system as all the members of the fauna of a continent—is betrayed in the end also by the fact that the most diverse philosophers keep filling in a definite fundamental scheme of possible philosophies.”
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There are limits to philosophical thinking and those limits are organic, like a land mass, filled with different textures and spaces, but always contained from the highest perspective by abstract-physical limits.
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