Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Crates (Theb) and Sextus Empiricus

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

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Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Crates of Thebes, by Plutarch]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

1767	Everyone should study philosophy until they see all people in the same light [Crates of Thebes, by Diog. Laertius]

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

1887	You cannot divide anything into many parts, because after the first division you are no longer dividing the original [Sext.Empiricus]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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Ordinary speech is not exact about what is true; we say we are digging a well before the well exists [Sext.Empiricus]