Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Pindar, Roy Ellen and Richard Jeffrey

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8 ideas

7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories

10496

Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen]

10497

In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation

10494

Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words [Ellen]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

10495

Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions

16285

A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism

10498

Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

19155

Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]