Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Gorgias, Ruth Garrett Millikan and Stephen Wolfram

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7 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

20660

At one level maths and nature are very similar, suggesting some deeper origin [Wolfram]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

18933

Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

12582

The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p [Millikan]

18. Thought / C. Content / 11. Teleological Semantics

23801

Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space

20659

Space and its contents seem to be one stuff - so space is the only existing thing [Wolfram]