Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Anaxarchus, Moses Maimonides and Richard Jeffrey

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5 ideas

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

16285

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]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

20696

We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes [Maimonides]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity

19085

Thinking of God as resembling humans results from a bad translation of Genesis 1:26 [Maimonides]