5 ideas
2945 | Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer] |
21829 | Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars] |
2946 | You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer] |
6550 | Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars] |
5451 | Popper felt that ancient essentialism was a bar to progress [Popper, by Mautner] |