Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Willard Quine and Jonathan Schaffer
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
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If you say that a contradiction is true, you change the meaning of 'not', and so change the subject [Quine]
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To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine]
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
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Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine]
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The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine]
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In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine]
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We should not multiply basic entities, but we can have as many derivative entities as we like [Schaffer,J]
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2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions
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Definition rests on synonymy, rather than explaining it [Quine]
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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition
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Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine]
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Definition by words is determinate but relative; fixing contexts could make it absolute [Quine]
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Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine]
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2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase
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Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine]
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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy
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The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine]
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'Reification' occurs if we mistake a concept for a thing [Schaffer,J]
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