Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Consciousness,Represn, and Knowledge' and 'Short History of Modern Philosophy'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

10 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 2. History of Logic
5637 Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
18933 Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
9329 Justification is coherence with a background system; if irrefutable, it is knowledge [Lehrer]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind
9330 Generalization seems to be more fundamental to minds than spotting similarities [Lehrer]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 1. Introspection
9328 All conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them [Lehrer]
18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas
5636 Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton]
19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
9866 Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]
5864 Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]
24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights
5660 Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
5653 A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton]