Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Roger Penrose, Cian Dorr and Frances A. Yates

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

14596

Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

14597

Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

14598

Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness

4921	Quantum states in microtubules could bind brain activity to produce consciousness [Penrose]