Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Brand Blanshard, Naguib Mahfouz and Jonathan Schofield

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

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Tell cleverness from answers, but wisdom from questions [Mahfouz]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

2764	Full coherence might involve consistency and mutual entailment of all propositions [Blanshard, by Dancy,J]

3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth

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Coherence tests for truth without implying correspondence, so truth is not correspondence [Blanshard, by Young,JO]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox

7006	Observing irrelevant items supports both 'all x are y' and 'all x are non-y', revealing its absurdity [Schofield,J]