Combining Philosophers

Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Gottfried Leibniz and Stoic school

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
20784 There are non-sensible presentations, which come to us through the intellect [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
21253 Descartes needs to demonstrate how other people can attain his clear and distinct conceptions [Leibniz]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
12933 Arithmetic and geometry are implicitly innate, awaiting revelation [Leibniz]
12991 Children learn language fast, with little instruction and few definitions [Leibniz]
12929 All of our thoughts come from within the soul, and not from the senses [Leibniz]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / c. Tabula rasa
20803 Stoics say we are born like a blank sheet of paper; the first concepts on it are sensations [Stoic school, by Ps-Plutarch]
6025 At birth the soul is a blank sheet ready to be written on [Stoic school, by Aetius]
12940 What is left of the 'blank page' if you remove the ideas? [Leibniz]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
9344 Mathematical analysis ends in primitive principles, which cannot be and need not be demonstrated [Leibniz]
9155 An a priori proof is independent of experience [Leibniz]