Combining Philosophers

Ideas for John Cottingham, Epicurus and Paul Thagard

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

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Coherence problems have positive and negative restraints; solutions maximise constraint satisfaction [Thagard]

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Coherence is explanatory, deductive, conceptual, analogical, perceptual, and deliberative [Thagard]

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Explanatory coherence needs symmetry,explanation,analogy,data priority, contradiction,competition,acceptance [Thagard]

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

2670	Epicurus despises and laughs at the whole of dialectic [Epicurus, by Cicero]