The conviction that thinking is external to being — with being as a self-standing provider of material on which a contentless thinking imposes conceptual form — leads to contradictions.

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(how evaluative norms exist outside a purely biological framework)

Separate from or outside of; not part of something.

Imposes(describing how thinking allegedly forces structure onto being)

Forces or places something onto something else, often without that thing naturally having it.

Self-standing(as used in metaphysics)

Existing independently on its own, without needing something else to support or define it.

Thinking (or Thought)(contrasted with being/reality)

The activity of the mind—our concepts, ideas, and mental representations that we use to understand the world.

being(Aristotle's rejection of being as a genus)

The class that contains all and only things that exist; proposed candidate for a highest kind.

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Thus, when Hegel in the second edition of his Science of Logic (1831) nevertheless claims that in the end “[e]very philosophy is essentially idealism or at least has it as its principle” (GW 21, 142), he must mean by idealism something other than traditional idealism and certainly something other than Kant’s indeterminate ontological realism. Rather, he must mean by idealism a philosophical outlook that is immune against the charge of grounding a philosophical system in a conception of reality t

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