Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Archimedes, Oscar Wilde and Ruth Garrett Millikan

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6 ideas

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

13007

Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

12582

The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p [Millikan]

18. Thought / C. Content / 11. Teleological Semantics

23801

Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art

7276	All art is quite useless [Wilde]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

7274	Books are only well or badly written, not moral or immoral [Wilde]

7275	Having ethical sympathies is a bad mannerism of style in an artist [Wilde]