Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Immanuel Kant and Sophocles

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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
I exist just as an intelligence aware of its faculty for combination [Kant]
According to empiricists abstraction is the fundamental mental process [Fodor]
Associations and causes cannot explain content, which needs norms of judgement [Kant, by Pinkard]
Associations are held to connect Ideas together in the way the world is connected together [Fodor]
Associationism can't explain how truth is preserved [Fodor]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism
Pragmatism is the worst idea ever [Fodor]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
For Kant, our conceptual scheme is disastrous when it reaches beyond experience [Kant, by Fogelin]
Appearance gives truth, as long as it is only used within experience [Kant]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
Rationalists say there is more to a concept than the experience that prompts it [Fodor]
Understanding has no intuitions, and senses no thought, so knowledge needs their unity [Kant]
Sensations are a posteriori, but that they come in degrees is known a priori [Kant]