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    Challenges→The method of overcoming philosophical oppositions by stipulating integrating unities is not ultimately feasible for justifying idealism.

    If philosophical oppositions are internally unstable and self-undermining, overcoming them requires no external stipulation but only rigorous immanent critique, which idealism uniquely provides.

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    Immanent critique
    A form of critique tied to the suffering of the oppressed, in which the theorist develops the meaning of the oppressed's experience into a coherent critique of existing society.
    Self-undermining(in logic and argument)
    When an idea or rule contradicts itself or destroys the very thing it's trying to achieve.
    idealism(Presented as a consequence of the coherence theory of truth, but not exclusive to it)
    The view that one's beliefs constitute the world
    internally unstable(describing the nature of philosophical oppositions)
    When something contains hidden problems or contradictions within itself that make it fall apart on its own.
    philosophical oppositions(the main subject being discussed)

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