Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Robert B. Brandom and A.R. Lacey

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9 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
10355 Facts can't make claims true, because they are true claims [Brandom, by Kusch]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
16062 A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16061 If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
16060 Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
16064 The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory
6455 Maybe 'sense-data' just help us to talk about unusual perceptual situations [Lacey]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / b. Nature of sense-data
6454 Where do sense-data begin or end? Can they change? What sort of thing are they? [Lacey]
6453 Some claim sense-data are public, and are parts of objects [Lacey]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
7765 The use of a sentence is its commitments and entitlements [Brandom, by Lycan]