Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Necessary Existents', 'Frege philosophy of mathematics' and 'Review of Aron 'Our Knowledge of Universals''

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts


3 ideas

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts
We reach concepts by clarification, or by definition, or by habitual experience [Price,HH]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / i. Conceptual priority
Maybe a concept is 'prior' to another if it can be defined without the second concept [Dummett]
An argument for conceptual priority is greater simplicity in explanation [Dummett]