Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hermarchus, Diodorus Cronus and Beth Lord

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought
21855 Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility
5998 From the necessity of the past we can infer the impossibility of what never happens [Diod.Cronus, by White,MJ]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
20832 The Master Argument seems to prove that only what will happen is possible [Diod.Cronus, by Epictetus]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals
14304 Conditionals are true when the antecedent is true, and the consequent has to be true [Diod.Cronus]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving
21866 Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions
6024 Thought is unambiguous, and you should stick to what the speaker thinks they are saying [Diod.Cronus, by Gellius]
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]