Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Peter B. Lewis and Stephen Schiffer

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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

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Fichte, Schelling and Hegel rejected transcendental idealism [Lewis,PB]

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Fichte, Hegel and Schelling developed versions of Absolute Idealism [Lewis,PB]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

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Contextualism needs a semantics for knowledge sentences that are partly indexical [Schiffer,S]

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The indexical aspect of contextual knowledge might be hidden, or it might be in what 'know' means [Schiffer,S]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

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Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]