Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Luke Westaway and Nuel D. Belnap

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
6900 A prior understanding of beauty is needed to assert that the Form of the Beautiful is beautiful [Westaway]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
12887 A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim]
6956 At what point does an object become 'whole'? [Westaway]
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]
17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room
7335 The Chinese Room should be able to ask itself questions in Mandarin [Westaway]