Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Brand Blanshard, Paul Ricoeur and Thomas Bayes

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

5438	Hermeneutics of tradition is sympathetic, hermeneutics of suspicion is hostile [Ricoeur, by Mautner]

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

19080

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

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

14280

The probability of two events is the first probability times the second probability assuming the first [Bayes]