Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Anaxarchus, George Santayana and Thoralf Skolem

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

8000	He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

17879

Axiomatising set theory makes it all relative [Skolem]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

13536

Skolem did not believe in the existence of uncountable sets [Skolem]

5. Theory of Logic / J. Model Theory in Logic / 3. Löwenheim-Skolem Theorems

17878

If a 1st-order proposition is satisfied, it is satisfied in a denumerably infinite domain [Skolem]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics

17880

Integers and induction are clear as foundations, but set-theory axioms certainly aren't [Skolem]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

17881

Mathematician want performable operations, not propositions about objects [Skolem]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

18521

The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana]

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

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

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

23060

The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana]