Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Stilpo, Georg Kreisel and Henry of Ghent

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8 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

17809

Gödel showed that the syntactic approach to the infinite is of limited value [Kreisel]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics

17810

The study of mathematical foundations needs new non-mathematical concepts [Kreisel]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

16657

Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three [Henry of Ghent]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

16658

The only reality in the category of Relation is things from another category [Henry of Ghent]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16645

Accidents are diminished beings, because they are dispositions of substance (unqualified being) [Henry of Ghent]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22012

Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental! [Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space

17811

The natural conception of points ducks the problem of naming or constructing each point [Kreisel]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

3029	Stilpo said if Athena is a daughter of Zeus, then a statue is only the child of a sculptor, and so is not a god [Stilpo, by Diog. Laertius]