Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Brand Blanshard, Michael Martin and Frances A. Yates

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought
9288 The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]
9291 The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
6855 Interesting philosophers hardly every give you explicitly valid arguments [Martin,M]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence
2764 Full coherence might involve consistency and mutual entailment of all propositions [Blanshard, by Dancy,J]
2. Reason / E. Argument / 1. Argument
6856 Valid arguments can be rejected by challenging the premises or presuppositions [Martin,M]
3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
19080 Coherence tests for truth without implying correspondence, so truth is not correspondence [Blanshard, by Young,JO]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
6857 An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M]