Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Eucleides, Victor Velarde-Mayol and John Bacon

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
10467 Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John]
10464 A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John]
10465 Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds
10466 Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 4. Solipsism
21227 The Cogito demands a bridge to the world, and ends in isolating the ego [Velarde-Mayol]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
21215 The representation may not be a likeness [Velarde-Mayol]
19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
1757 The Electra: she knows this man, but not that he is her brother [Eucleides, by Diog. Laertius]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
3028 The chief good is unity, sometimes seen as prudence, or God, or intellect [Eucleides]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
21219 Find the essence by varying an object, to see what remains invariable [Velarde-Mayol]