Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Stephen P. Stich, Michael Morris and Alan Turing

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12 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M]

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

6627	Radical pragmatists abandon the notion of truth [Stich, by Lowe]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

23484

Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

23494

Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M]

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

23451

Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M]

23460

To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M]

23452

Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

4765	Stich accepts eliminativism (labelled 'pragmatism') about rationality and normativity [Stich, by Engel]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / b. Turing Machines

3193	Turing showed that logical rules can be specified computationally and mechanically [Turing, by Rey]

3979	The Turing Machine is the best idea yet about how the mind works [Fodor on Turing]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / c. Turing Test

5321	In 50 years computers will successfully imitate humans with a 70% success rate [Turing]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

23491

There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M]