Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Anaxarchus, Francis of Marchia and Richard Jeffrey

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4 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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If you remove the accidents from a horse and a lion, the intellect can't tell them apart [Francis of Marchia]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions

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A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey]

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

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

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

19155

Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson]