Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Theory of Knowledge (2nd edn)', 'On the Very Idea of a Third Dogma' and 'Nine political essays'

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4 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]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation

19045

Translation is too flimsy a notion to support theories of cultural incommensurability [Quine]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights

6581	Hume thought (unlike Locke) that property is a merely conventional relationship [Hume, by Fogelin]