Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Miranda Fricker and Plato

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division

2086	Understanding mainly involves knowing the elements, not their combinations [Plato]

166	A speaker should be able to divide a subject, right down to the limits of divisibility [Plato]

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Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato]

2083	Either a syllable is its letters (making parts as knowable as whole) or it isn't (meaning it has no parts) [Plato]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 3. Analysis of Preconditions

12633

Definitions often give necessary but not sufficient conditions for an extension [Fodor]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

23682

It would be absurd to be precise about the small things, but only vague about the big things [Plato]

2474	It seems likely that analysis of concepts is impossible, but justification can survive without it [Fodor]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis

2481	Despite all the efforts of philosophers, nothing can ever be reduced to anything [Fodor]

1645	The desire to split everything into its parts is unpleasant and unphilosophical [Plato]