Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Prodicus, W Quine / J Ullian and Nicole Oresme

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

8460	Philosophers have given precise senses to deduction, probability, computability etc [Quine/Ullian]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 9. Qualities

16705

Whiteness isn't created in an alteration, because it is just this-being-white [Oresme]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16695

Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times [Oresme]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

1554	Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

1555	People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

535	The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus]

1543	He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus]