Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for John Austin, Paul Thagard and Leo Tolstoy

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21 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence
17596 Coherence problems have positive and negative restraints; solutions maximise constraint satisfaction [Thagard]
17597 Coherence is explanatory, deductive, conceptual, analogical, perceptual, and deliberative [Thagard]
17598 Explanatory coherence needs symmetry,explanation,analogy,data priority, contradiction,competition,acceptance [Thagard]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude
17602 Verisimilitude comes from including more phenomena, and revealing what underlies [Thagard]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory
17601 Neither a priori rationalism nor sense data empiricism account for scientific knowledge [Thagard]
14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem
17600 Bayesian inference is forced to rely on approximations [Thagard]
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / c. Explanations by coherence
17064 1: Coherence is a symmetrical relation between two propositions [Thagard, by Smart]
17065 2: An explanation must wholly cohere internally, and with the new fact [Thagard, by Smart]
17066 3: If an analogous pair explain another analogous pair, then they all cohere [Thagard, by Smart]
17067 4: For coherence, observation reports have a degree of intrinsic acceptability [Thagard, by Smart]
17068 5: Contradictory propositions incohere [Thagard, by Smart]
17069 6: A proposition's acceptability depends on its coherence with a system [Thagard, by Smart]
14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / a. Best explanation
17599 The best theory has the highest subjective (Bayesian) probability? [Thagard]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
8122 True works of art transmit completely new feelings [Tolstoy]
8121 Art is when one man uses external signs to hand on his feelings to another man [Tolstoy]
8124 The highest feelings of mankind can only be transmitted by art [Tolstoy]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art
8123 The purpose of art is to help mankind to evolve better, more socially beneficial feelings [Tolstoy]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22710 People estimate art according to their moral values [Tolstoy]
8125 The upper classes put beauty first, and thus freed themselves from morality [Tolstoy]
8064 We separate the concept of beauty from goodness, unlike the ancients [Tolstoy]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / d. Legal positivism
20930 The existence of law is one thing, its merits and demerits another [Austin,J]