Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Theodor W. Adorno and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
20435 If philosophy could be summarised it would be pointless [Adorno]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
16062 A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16061 If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
16060 Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
16064 The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
18435 Resemblance Nominalists say that resemblance explains properties (not the other way round) [Rodriquez-Pereyra]
18436 Entities are truthmakers for their resemblances, so no extra entities or 'resemblances' are needed [Rodriquez-Pereyra]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 1. Ideology
15664 Ideology is 'socially necessary illusion' or 'socially necessary false-consciousness' [Adorno, by Finlayson]