Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Speussipus, Thoralf Skolem and Robert B. Brandom

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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]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

17879

Axiomatising set theory makes it all relative [Skolem]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

13536

Skolem did not believe in the existence of uncountable sets [Skolem]

5. Theory of Logic / J. Model Theory in Logic / 3. Löwenheim-Skolem Theorems

17878

If a 1st-order proposition is satisfied, it is satisfied in a denumerably infinite domain [Skolem]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics

17880

Integers and induction are clear as foundations, but set-theory axioms certainly aren't [Skolem]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

17881

Mathematician want performable operations, not propositions about objects [Skolem]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

594	Speusippus suggested underlying principles for every substance, and ended with a huge list [Speussipus, by Aristotle]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

7765	The use of a sentence is its commitments and entitlements [Brandom, by Lycan]

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

2632	Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero]