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This commentary addresses the question of the meaning of critique in relation to objectivism or dogmatism. Inspired by Kant’s critical philosophy and Husserl’s phenomenology, it defines the first in terms of conditionality, the second in terms of oppositionality. It works out an application on the basis of Salthe’s (Found Sci 15 4(6):357–367, 2010a) paper on development and evolution, where competition is criticized in oppositional, more than in conditional terms.

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  1. Centre for Critical Philosophy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Gertrudis Van de Vijver

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Fairlamb (2010) did also comment on Salthe (2010) paper. See Salthe (2010) for replies.

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Van de Vijver, G. Friends of Wisdom?. Found Sci 17, 5–7 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-010-9213-8

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