Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Plato and John Dewey

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 4. Pure Logic
2442 Inferences are surely part of the causal structure of the world [Fodor]
5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 5. First-Order Logic
22873 Liberalism should improve the system, and not just ameliorate it [Dewey]
5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / d. and
12664 A truth-table, not inferential role, defines 'and' [Fodor]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names
13777 A name is a sort of tool [Plato]
13790 A name-giver might misname something, then force other names to conform to it [Plato]
13791 Things must be known before they are named, so it can't be the names that give us knowledge [Plato]
3005 'Jocasta' needs to be distinguished from 'Oedipus's mother' because they are connected by different properties [Fodor]
12648 Names in thought afford a primitive way to bring John before the mind [Fodor]
12650 'Paderewski' has two names in mentalese, for his pianist file and his politician file [Fodor]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / c. Names as referential
13789 Anyone who knows a thing's name also knows the thing [Plato]
5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 2. Consistency
12656 P-and-Q gets its truth from the truth of P and truth of Q, but consistency isn't like that [Fodor]
5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 2. Aporiai
11259 How can you seek knowledge of something if you don't know it? [Plato]
5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 3. Antinomies
13986 Plato found antinomies in ideas, Kant in space and time, and Bradley in relations [Plato, by Ryle]
14150 Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made [Russell on Plato]