Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Leucippus and Paul M. Pietroski

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these philosophers

---

3 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

20653

Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]

19. Language / B. Reference / 5. Speaker's Reference

21650

No language is semantically referential; it all occurs at the level of thought or utterance [Pietroski, by Hofweber]