Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hermarchus, Cian Dorr and Ernst Mach

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

15873

Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

14596

Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

14597

Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

14598

Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

6005	Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley]