Combining Philosophers

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

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4 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

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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

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

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