Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for William S. Jevons, Diogenes Laertius and Jenny Teichmann

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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
3035 Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers [Diog. Laertius]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism
8628 I hold that algebra and number are developments of logic [Jevons]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
9295 Not only substances have attributes; events, actions, states and qualities can have them [Teichmann]
13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma
1816 Sceptics say demonstration depends on self-demonstrating things, or indemonstrable things [Diog. Laertius]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
1819 Scepticism has two dogmas: that nothing is definable, and every argument has an opposite argument [Diog. Laertius]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
3064 When sceptics say that nothing is definable, or all arguments have an opposite, they are being dogmatic [Diog. Laertius]
14. Science / C. Induction / 4. Reason in Induction
3033 Induction moves from some truths to similar ones, by contraries or consequents [Diog. Laertius]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism
9293 Body-spirit interaction ought to result in losses and increases of energy in the material world [Teichmann]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure
1838 Cyrenaic pleasure is a motion, but Epicurean pleasure is a condition [Diog. Laertius]
23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism
1769 Cynics believe that when a man wishes for nothing he is like the gods [Diog. Laertius]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul
9292 The Soul has no particular capacity (in the way thinking belongs to the mind) [Teichmann]
9294 No individuating marks distinguish between Souls [Teichmann]