Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Anaxarchus, Diodorus Cronus and Avicenna (Abu Ibn Sina)

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

11209

The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object

11204

The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

15036

An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility

5998	From the necessity of the past we can infer the impossibility of what never happens [Diod.Cronus, by White,MJ]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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The Master Argument seems to prove that only what will happen is possible [Diod.Cronus, by Epictetus]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

14304

Conditionals are true when the antecedent is true, and the consequent has to be true [Diod.Cronus]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

3061	Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

6024	Thought is unambiguous, and you should stick to what the speaker thinks they are saying [Diod.Cronus, by Gellius]