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Chapter 8 1 The foregoing examples are skeptical hypotheses of a kind that every philosophical tradition has taken seriously; the positivists had to work hard to argue that those "hypotheses" are meaningless even though the sentences look perfectly meaningful at first glance. The positivists had less patience and less trouble with the Hegelian idealism of the late nineteenth century, as in "The Absolute is perfect," and with Heideggerian existentialism, as in "The Nothing noths" ("Das Nichts nichtet"). I once received a brochure, advertising a newly published philosophy book. The brochure contained a bulleted list of the book's special features. And one of the bulleted items was: "Eleven new ways in which negation negates itself." I swear I am not making this up. 2 Of course, there are degrees of understanding. We may not understand a term completely. (Do you know exactly what a camshaft is? How about a linear accelerator