Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Ruth Garrett Millikan, Nicole Oresme and Nicholas Hill

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 9. Qualities

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Whiteness isn't created in an alteration, because it is just this-being-white [Oresme]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / b. Form as principle

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Form is the principle that connects a thing's constitution (rather than being operative) [Hill,N]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

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Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times [Oresme]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p [Millikan]

18. Thought / C. Content / 11. Teleological Semantics

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Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte]