A map of the arguments of philosophy

Broken into explicit premises, inferences and conclusions, each tied to the passage it comes from, each linked to every argument that depends on it or attacks it, and open to dispute by anyone who can cite a text.

Every node shows its status in words: draft was produced by a model and read by nobody; checked has had its inference checked by machine or, on a comparison, has been reviewed by a named human short of attestation, with the qualification shown on the page; attested has been read against its passage by one named human; established by two. A node under dispute is marked contested.

Comparisons

• The will: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche

  Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche

  What is the will, is it immediately known, is it the cause of the body's actions, and is it free?

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• The thing in itself: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche

  Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche

  Is there a thing in itself to a given appearance, how would it be reached, and what can be said of it?

  checked, claims and readings reviewed by the owner against the project's translations on 2026-10-10; cells added since then not reviewed by him; translations not independently verified

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1. We must be able to think the same objects as things in themselves, or there would be appearance without anything that appearsargument · checked
2. Kant's derivation of the thing in itself by the law of causality cannot bring one in, because that law never leads beyond representationargument · checked
3. The state expressed in "I think" has no immediate certainty, because settling what it is presupposes a comparison with other states I know in myselfargument · checked

Thinkers

• Immanuel Kant1724–1804
• Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
• Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860

To dispute a node

Anyone, under their real name, with affiliation if they wish. The filter is the citation: a dispute without at least one passage reference is returned with a one-line reason and is not published. Every claim, argument, passage, reading and comparison page ends with the link to file one; the protocol is DISPUTES.md.