Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Carl Friedrich Gauss, Joseph Levine and Brand Blanshard

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6 ideas

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]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite
10855 Actual infinities are not allowed in mathematics - only limits which may increase without bound [Gauss]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap
7876 Even if we identify pain with neural events, we can't explain why those neurons cause that feeling [Levine, by Papineau]
7877 Only phenomenal states have an explanatory gap; water is fully explained by H2O [Levine, by Papineau]
7878 Materialism won't explain phenomenal properties, because the latter aren't seen in causal roles [Papineau on Levine]