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Lord Whitehead,
tried to create a new kind of speculative metaphysics. Claimed reality
was 'incomplete', a matter of the becoming of 'occasions'.
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Saint Thomas
Aquinas, accused of using Aristotle to back up his own arguments
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John Langshaw
Austin, may have abused the locutionary force to utter performatives
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Martin Heidegger,
a fanatical supporter of ontological difference, and incidentally, a Nazi,
suspended from teaching for his support of Hitler...
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Edmund Husserl,
born in Moravia where he used the 'noema' to generalise the bedeutung to
the field of all acts of the lifeworld...
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William
James, who pragmatically thought that it is useful to believe what is true...
accused nowadays of relativism.
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Earl Russell,
patron of the Philosophical Society who proposed a solution to the external
world by constructing matter out of sensibilia (instead of writing for
The
Philosopher)
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Michel Foucault,
used a genealogical approach to discuss sexual matters really rather improper
for a philosopher
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And Jean-Paul
Sartre, found attempting to combine marxism and existentialism whilst in
his classical period
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