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(1991) Appearance and sense, Dordrecht-Boston-London, Kluwer.
One of the essential features of negative philosophy is its denial of a unity in the development of philosophical thought and of a fixed set of philosophical problems, let alone of solutions to them. Therefore negative philosophy always advances projects and plans that are not merely reformist but indeed "revolutionary." This feature is present in all types of negative philosophy — from simple nihilism, through skepticism and relativism, up to and including positivism. On the other hand, positive philosophy in its very essence respects the philosophical tradition and sees in the history of philosophy its own problems and tasks as well as the continuous development of them. Positive philosophy, therefore, is always a philosophy with positive problems and tasks. Indeed, it has never substituted the problem of knowing what is real in all its forms and types for any other problems. From Plato to Lotze, through Descartes and Leibniz, positive philosophy has followed one straight path.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3292-3_1
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Špet, G. (1991). Introduction, in Appearance and sense, Dordrecht-Boston-London, Kluwer, pp. 3-7.
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