Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hesiod, Einstein,A/Infeld,L and Ruth Garrett Millikan

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4 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]

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

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

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]