Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Donald Davidson, John Hick and Rudolph Carnap

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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

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Empiricists tend to reject abstract entities, and to feel sympathy with nominalism [Carnap]

8252	Davidson believes experience is non-conceptual, and outside the space of reasons [Davidson, by McDowell]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

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New linguistic claims about entities are not true or false, but just expedient, fruitful or successful [Carnap]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

6400	Without the dualism of scheme and content, not much is left of empiricism [Davidson]

8255	Davidson says the world influences us causally; I say it influences us rationally [McDowell on Davidson]