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    The traditional conviction that thinking and being are fundamentally and irreconcilably opposed is philosophically untenable.

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    • 1.The belief that being exists totally independently of and without any relation to thinking leads to contradictions.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.The assumption that being could exist without thinking and thinking without being leads to contradictions.
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    • 1.Causal closure of the physical domain, supported by neuroscience, entails that mental states are fully explicable without ontological parity with being.
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    • 2.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that 'thinking' reduces to discrete perceptual events with no intrinsic structural correspondence to mind-independent causal regularities.
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    • 3.The predictive success of physics operating under a realist ontology provides inductive grounds for being's independence from any conceiving mind.
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    • 1.Kant's thing-in-itself establishes that noumenal being necessarily outruns all possible conceptual determination, preserving an irreconcilable asymmetry between thought and being.
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    • 2.The supporting arguments commit a non sequitur: showing relational interdependence between thinking and being does not dissolve their categorical opposition, only complicates it.
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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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