Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Anaxarchus, Alfred North Whitehead and Peter Auriol

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

7719	European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

10656

With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

15389

In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

18528

The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

3061	Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

16589

Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

15247

Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space

16962

Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions

16651

God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol]