Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hermarchus, Ruth Garrett Millikan and Nuel D. Belnap

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5 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p [Millikan]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox

19000

Read 'all ravens are black' as about ravens, not as about an implication [Belnap]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation

17897

Analytic explanation is wholes in terms of parts; synthetic is parts in terms of wholes or contexts [Belnap]

18. Thought / C. Content / 11. Teleological Semantics

23801

Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte]

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]