Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Reiss,J/Spreger,J, Cover,J/O'Leary-Hawthorne,J and A.J. Ayer

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

5183	Only tautologies can be certain; other propositions can only be probable [Ayer]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique

19461

Knowing I exist reveals nothing at all about my nature [Ayer]

19459

To say 'I am not thinking' must be false, but it might have been true, so it isn't self-contradictory [Ayer]

19460

'I know I exist' has no counterevidence, so it may be meaningless [Ayer]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

6525	Logical positivists could never give the sense-data equivalent of 'there is a table next door' [Robinson,H on Ayer]

5170	Material things are constructions from actual and possible occurrences of sense-contents [Ayer]

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

2614	Modern phenomenalism holds that objects are logical constructions out of sense-data [Ayer]