Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Stilpo, Moses Maimonides and Richard Foley

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8 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

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Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory [Foley]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism

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Rational internal belief is conviction that a proposition enhances a belief system [Foley, by Vahid]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / c. Disjunctivism

12800

Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification [Foley]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification

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We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it [Foley]

12803

Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints [Foley]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

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We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes [Maimonides]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity

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Thinking of God as resembling humans results from a bad translation of Genesis 1:26 [Maimonides]

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]