Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for James Baillie, Ori Simchen and Martin Luther

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

8011	Aristotle is a buffoon who has misled the Church [Luther, by MacIntyre]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

16186

The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen]

16187

The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen]

16190

BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 4. Identity in Logic

3299	In logic identity involves reflexivity (x=x), symmetry (if x=y, then y=x) and transitivity (if x=y and y=z, then x=z) [Baillie]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

16188

Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6609	With respect to religion, reason is a blind whore [Luther]