Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Goodman,N/Quine,W, Philolaus and T Adorno / M Horkheimer

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 5. Critical Theory

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Adorno and Horkheimer subjected the Enlightenment to 'critical theory' analysis [Adorno/Horkheimer, by Finlayson]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

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We renounce all abstract entities [Goodman/Quine]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification

472	No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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De Sade said it was impossible to rationally argue against murder [Adorno/Horkheimer]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

473	There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus]

1519	Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus]

1518	Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited

469	Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical

476	Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

1787	Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius]