Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Agrippa, Michael Strevens and Andrew Gibson

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1815	Reasoning needs arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses (Mode 14) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1812	All discussion is full of uncertainty and contradiction (Mode 11) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1811	Proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved (Mode 15) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1813	All reasoning endlessly leads to further reasoning (Mode 12) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Understanding is a precondition, comes in degrees, is active, and holistic - unlike explanation [Strevens]

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Scientific understanding is always the grasping of a correct explanation [Strevens]

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We may 'understand that' the cat is on the mat, but not at all 'understand why' it is there [Strevens]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma

8850	Agrippa's Trilemma: justification is infinite, or ends arbitrarily, or is circular [Agrippa, by Williams,M]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism

1814	Everything is perceived in relation to another thing (Mode 13) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

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Culture is the struggle to agree what is normal [Gibson,A]