Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Stilpo, Correia,F/Schnieder,B and Thomas Bayes

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

17266

Using modal logic, philosophers tried to handle all metaphysics in modal terms [Correia/Schnieder]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason

17263

Why do rationalists accept Sufficient Reason, when it denies the existence of fundamental facts? [Correia/Schnieder]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

17270

Is existential dependence by grounding, or do grounding claims arise from existential dependence? [Correia/Schnieder]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / c. Grounding and explanation

17268

Grounding is metaphysical and explanation epistemic, so keep them apart [Correia/Schnieder]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

17267

The identity of two facts may depend on how 'fine-grained' we think facts are [Correia/Schnieder]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

14280

The probability of two events is the first probability times the second probability assuming the first [Bayes]

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

3029	Stilpo said if Athena is a daughter of Zeus, then a statue is only the child of a sculptor, and so is not a god [Stilpo, by Diog. Laertius]