Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Christian Wolff, David Marshall and Barry Smith

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5 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason
18241 Sufficient reason is implied by contradiction, of an insufficient possible which exists [Wolff, by Korsgaard]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation
18470 Maybe truth-making is an unanalysable primitive, but we can specify principles for it [Smith,B]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism
18469 God might necessitate that something happen, but He is not the truth-maker for it [Smith,B]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / a. Consciousness
6668 If the present does not exist, then consciousness must be memory of the immediate past [Marshall]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question
18242 Confucius shows that ethics can rest on reason, rather than on revelation [Wolff, by Korsgaard]