Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Idealism: a critical survey', 'The Logical Syntax of Language' and 'Making Things Happen'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence

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Carnap defined consequence by contradiction, but this is unintuitive and changes with substitution [Tarski on Carnap]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention

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Each person is free to build their own logic, just by specifying a syntax [Carnap]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism

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We can no more expect a precise definition of coherence than we can of the moral ideal [Ewing]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique

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If undetailed, 'coherence' is just a vague words that covers all possible arguments [Ewing]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

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An explanation is a causal graph [Woodward,J, by Strevens]