Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Harold Noonan and Crates (Theb)

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12 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

21336

Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Crates of Thebes, by Plutarch]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

1767	Everyone should study philosophy until they see all people in the same light [Crates of Thebes, by Diog. Laertius]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

16014

It is controversial whether only 'numerical identity' allows two things to be counted as one [Noonan]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

16024

I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

16023

Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object [Noonan]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity

16016

Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular [Noonan]

16017

Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law [Noonan]

16015

Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity [Noonan]

16020

Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language [Noonan]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

16019

Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle [Noonan]

16018

Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness [Noonan]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights

20523

Property is theft! [Proudhon]