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Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Macro Writing Assignment 3:
Further Responses to Hegel and Idealism

Professor Gayle Ormiston

Narrow Focus: Specific topic that allows you to juxtapose through comparison, contrast, efforts to join, efforts to distance two of W, M, P, or J, on the same topic. The topic which serves as your focus is selected by you.

Each of the following items should be included in your Macro 3.

1. Write a conjecture or an hypothesis.

2. Write is the question or what are the questions to which your conjecture of hypothesis attempts to respond?

3. What is the source of your question?

4. What are you attempting to achieve with your conjecture?

1. to announce an ignorance which you desire to eliminate in some fashion
2. to articulate a doubt that has grown in and through your encounters with W, M, P, and J
3. to explore some dissonance internal to W, M, P, J or some upset of a previous belief regarding W, M, P, and J
4. to explore some topic with which you have familiarity in greater depth
5. to state an insight and to explore a further question that results from your insight as an "upset" in thinking.

5. Explain how you will TEST your hypothesis or conjecture? What will be measure for confirming and denying--jointly or separately--your conjecture/hypothesis? How will you or anyone who would read you KNOW that the conjecture/hypothesis has been TESTED?

6. Provide an adumbration of the format or structure of what would be your report of this inquiry.

1. how many sections do you project? What are the titles of these sections?
2. how many paragraphs per section?

8. Bring to class on May 12, 1995 an abstract for the paper in addition to 1-7.

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