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The idea that philosophy is in some sense a "constructive" enterprise has a long and distinguished pedigree. Equally venerable is the claim that there are deep parallels between the methods employed by the mathematician, especially the Euclidian geometer, and the philosopher. To be sure, there is an equally long tradition that disputes these claimed affinities and insists that philosophy is not mathesis and is incapable of constructing its concepts. A close examination of these same debates r... |