Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Lycophron, Johann Gottfried Herder and Peter Auriol

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

20947

Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

18528

The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism

604	Knowledge is mind and knowing 'cohabiting' [Lycophron, by Aristotle]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

20949

Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7669	We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism

7668	Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

16589

Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions

16651

God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol]