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All the ideas for 'Theory of Knowledge (2nd edn)', 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' and 'works'

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14 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy

2945	Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

2946	You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

23449

Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

6806	Do not multiply entities beyond necessity [William of Ockham]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

23484

Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

23494

Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

23451

Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M]

23460

To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M]

23452

Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 5. Universals as Concepts

22132

Species and genera are individual concepts which naturally signify many individuals [William of Ockham]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

23491

There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time

19381

The past has ceased to exist, and the future does not yet exist, so time does not exist [William of Ockham]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality

8010	William of Ockham is the main spokesman for God's commands being the source of morality [William of Ockham]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / c. Angels

16679

Even an angel must have some location [William of Ockham, by Pasnau]