Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Franciscus Toletus and Susan Haack

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4 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
2572 Logical truth seems much less likely to 'correspond to the facts' than factual truth does [Haack]
3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / a. Tarski's truth definition
2570 The same sentence could be true in one language and meaningless in another, so truth is language-relative [Haack]
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction
20653 Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
16764 The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus]