Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Roy Bhaskar, Trent Dougherty and Giordano Bruno

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5 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

15143

Kind essences are the categorical bases of a thing's causal powers [Bhaskar, by Chakravartty]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

19701

Fallibilism is consistent with dogmatism or scepticism, and is not alternative to them [Dougherty]

19700

It is best to see the fallibility in the reasons, rather than in the agents or the knowledge [Dougherty]

19702

We can't normally say that we know something 'but it might be false' [Dougherty]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

9287	Bruno said that ancient Egyptian magic was the true religion [Bruno, by Yates]