Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Stephen Schiffer and Ariston

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6 ideas

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

20768

Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

19508

Contextualism needs a semantics for knowledge sentences that are partly indexical [Schiffer,S]

19509

The indexical aspect of contextual knowledge might be hidden, or it might be in what 'know' means [Schiffer,S]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean

3049	The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

3549	Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas]