Combining Philosophers
Ideas for José Ortega y Gassett, Neil E. Williams and Plato
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies
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The status quo is part of what exists, and so needs metaphysical explanation [Williams,NE]
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A metaphysic is a set of wider explanations derived from a basic ontology [Williams,NE]
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Humeans say properties are passive, possibility is vast, laws are descriptions, causation is weak [Williams,NE]
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We shouldn't posit the existence of anything we have a word for [Williams,NE]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
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Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints [Plato]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
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Plato's reality has unchanging Parmenidean forms, and Heraclitean flux [Plato, by Fogelin]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Some alarming thinkers think that only things which you can touch exist [Plato]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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Whenever there's speech it has to be about something [Plato]
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