Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Plato and Michael della Rocca

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
3008 Evolution suggests that innate knowledge of human psychology would be beneficial [Fodor]
2990 Contrary to commonsense, most of what is in the mind seems to be unlearned [Fodor]
3009 Sticklebacks have an innate idea that red things are rivals [Fodor]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / b. Recollection doctrine
5985 Seeking and learning are just recollection [Plato]
5986 The slave boy learns geometry from questioning, not teaching, so it is recollection [Plato]
357 People are obviously recollecting when they react to a geometrical diagram [Plato]
359 If we feel the inadequacy of a resemblance, we must recollect the original [Plato]
5961 The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 6. A Priori from Reason
9343 To achieve pure knowledge, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things with the soul [Plato]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
2045 Perception is infallible, suggesting that it is knowledge [Plato]
2067 Our senses could have been separate, but they converge on one mind [Plato]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception
2465 Maybe explaining the mechanics of perception will explain the concepts involved [Fodor]
12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
2068 With what physical faculty do we perceive pairs of opposed abstract qualities? [Plato]
2078 You might mistake eleven for twelve in your senses, but not in your mind [Plato]
1637 A soul without understanding is ugly [Plato]
2162 If theory and practice conflict, the best part of the mind accepts theory, so the other part is of lower grade [Plato]
2069 Thought must grasp being itself before truth becomes possible [Plato]
151 True knowledge is of the reality behind sense experience [Plato]
334 Only bird-brained people think astronomy is entirely a matter of evidence [Plato]
2504 Rationalism can be based on an evolved computational brain with innate structure [Fodor]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
2493 According to empiricists abstraction is the fundamental mental process [Fodor]
3978 Associations are held to connect Ideas together in the way the world is connected together [Fodor]
12617 Associationism can't explain how truth is preserved [Fodor]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism
12625 Pragmatism is the worst idea ever [Fodor]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
2494 Rationalists say there is more to a concept than the experience that prompts it [Fodor]