Summary
Georg Simmel: The Philosophy of Money
Each field of research has two boundaries, where the movement of thought passes from the exact to the philosophical form. The assumptions of knowledge in general, as well as the axioms of each special field, displace the presentation and verification of this movement from the latter and transfer them to a more principled science, whose goal, which lies in the infinite: thinking without assumptions - a goal that individual sciences deny themselves, because they do not take a single step without evidence, therefore, without assumptions of an objective and methodical nature. Since philosophy presents and examines these assumptions, it cannot completely abolish them even for itself; it's just that, always at the ultimate point of knowledge, an indisputable decision and an appeal to what is unprovable arises in us, and that point, of course, is never definitively determined by the progression of provability.
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