Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Crispin Wright, Stewart Shapiro and Thomas Paine

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

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Coherence is a primitive, intuitive notion, not reduced to something formal [Shapiro]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

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The best way to understand a philosophical idea is to defend it [Wright,C]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

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The attempt to define numbers by contextual definition has been revived [Wright,C, by Fine,K]

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An 'implicit definition' gives a direct description of the relations of an entity [Shapiro]