Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Anaxarchus, Johann Gottfried Herder and J. Alberto Coffa

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

20947

Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / j. Axiom of Choice IX

18270

Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic

18263

The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

18272

Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa]

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

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

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

18266

Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

20949

Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7669	We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism

7668	Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time

18279

Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa]