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The real novelty of philosophical thinking lies in seeing new—in the epistemic sense of hitherto unperceived—connections between apparently unconnected conceptual questions or muddles, rather than in creating new concepts.
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The quote says that philosophical originality comes less from inventing entirely new concepts than from noticing connections people had not previously seen. Questions or confusions that seem separate may become clearer when understood together. In this view, philosophy makes something new by revealing an overlooked relationship between existing ideas.
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